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Why Go Outdoors?
September 27, 2013
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
-Hafiz of Shiraz
-Hafiz of Shiraz
"Nothing coaxes jumbled thoughts into coherent sentences like sitting under a shade tree on a pleasant day," wrote Carol Kaufman in her September 16, New York Times article, Time to Write? Go Outside. "With a slight breeze blowing, birds chirping melodies, wee bugs scurrying around me and a fully charged laptop or yellow legal pad at hand, I know I'll produce my best work....
"Turns out there are perfectly good reasons why writing outdoors works for me....Back in the 1970's, two pioneering environmental psychologists, Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, began investigating nature's healing effect on the mind. Decades later, their studies concluded that connections with nature could help us shirk mental fatigue, restore drifting attention and sharpen thinking. Even in an urban environment, a little green stimulates our senses, they report."
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United States
Thank you for letting us know about the quotes. A glitch in our computer system wasn't including them for a few days.
ece consultant
Dallas, TX, United States
Children can enjoy gross motor activities outside, but I always made sure there were other activities outside like sometimes a water table, large chalk, buckets and small shovels, and truly it was an outdoor classroom.
Carbondale, CO, United States
I love reading Exchange articles every day, but also love the quotes at the beginning of each article. WHERE DID THEY GO?? ARE THEY COMING BACK?? The quotes really get me thinking and I hope you add them back soon. Thanks!
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