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A recent post on The Dirt explains how nature can help us deal with stress.  It begins, “Michael Posner, professor emeritus at University of Oregon who studies attention, says that our brains gets fatigued after working for long periods of time, “particularly if we have to concentrate intensely or deal with a repetitive task.” Taking a break may or may not help deal with stress during high-pressure times. What’s crucial is the type of break taken.”  Read the article here: Nature Helps Deal with Stress.

Read the Boston Globe op-ed, “Why Walden Matters Now,” by Wen Stephenson.  He writes how Thoreau’s great subject wasn’t the environment, it was “our relationship, as human beings – physically, morally, spiritually, politically – to the world in which we live, which is to say, to everything, both human and wild.”  Read the entire op-ed here: Why Walden Matters Now