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Are You Ducking and Dodging the Connections You Need Most?

By Edward Hallowell — 2021

Feeling connected – to ourselves and to others – is key to living a life or purpose. Use these 13 tips to forge connections that will enrich your life.

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He Uses Art to Make State Parks in California More Accessible for All

Joe Colmenares and many others, Bayview-Hunters Point is not simply a representation of urban blight. It’s a living, breathing community where people live and work, love and lose, join together and get by.

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Sam Laird
2021
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For Our Faith to Grow, We Must Celebrate its Roots in Nature

When our ancestors received the Torah, they stood at a mountain. When we celebrate receiving the Torah on Shavuot, we will stand in the pews. They looked at the sky; we will look at the ceiling. They were warmed by the sun; we will be cooled by the air conditioning. I am a rabbi in a synagogue.

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David Wolpe
2017
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As We Seek Nature, We Wall It Out

The myth of our sprawly, paved-over cities and towns is that we’ve driven native animals out and stolen their habitat. Not entirely true.

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Diane Ackerman
2011
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To Be an Earth Ecstatic: Poet Diane Ackerman on the Spirituality of Wonder Without Religion

Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.

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Maria Popova
2020
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If Everyone Tripped on Psychedelics, We’d Do More About Climate Change

Scientists are looking into what psychedelics do to inspire people to act pro-environmentally.

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Shayla Love
2019
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How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement

Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. “Silent Spring” presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT...

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Eliza Griswold
2012
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Rachel Carson’s Natural Histories

“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable.

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Joshua Rothman
2012
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Silent Spring—I

If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.

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Rachel Carson
2017
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The Healing Power of Nature

A large body of evidence has shown that spending time in nature is responsible for many measurable beneficial changes in the body.

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Jessica Pettway
2016
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Why 30 Minutes of Nature a Day Is So Good for Your Health

Science is showing how immersion in nature speeds healing and acts as an antidote for many ailments.

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Andrés R. Edwards
2019
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