benefits of green places
Green places hold an important key to our wellbeing. Much of the world is taken over by concrete and man-made structures, separating us from our connection with the earth. By seeking out and spending time in natural, non-man-made places we:
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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. ~Hamlin Garland, McClure's, February 1899
