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April 01, 2020 6 min read 0 Comments
If you live in America, you probably don’t live at the base of one of Colorado’s 14’ers, ready to hike on a moment’s notice. Chances are that your new tent won’t get christened in a national park. Not everyone has access to blue ribbon water, where they can chase trout for days. You’re one of the lucky ones if you’ve spent a week white water rafting Snake River, exploring California’s Redwoods or the innumerable hot springs in Oregon. Odds are also good that ‘forest bathing’ isn’t a thing in your neck of the woods.
Just as the Swiss alchemist, Paracelsus, said, ‘The art of healing comes from nature, not the physician.’ And it’s up to each of us to drown ourselves in medicine. Afterall, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and the remedies we need can’t be found at the pharmacy.
Fill your kitchen with succulents. Skip the dryer and hang laundry on the line. Walk barefoot in the grass. Read a book on the porch. Eat your lunch in the park. Surround yourself with nature, even if you have to start small. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
The following words of John Muir have never resonated so loudly as they do amid this time of isolation and worry. If nothing else comes from the first pandemic that most of us have ever seen, let it be that we are each awakened to the fact that nature is magical, we’re all made from the same stardust and life is about experiences, not things.
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and enrich their own little ongoings with those of Nature, and to get rid of rust and disease.
– John Muir.
Words by Amber Leach
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