Nature & Environment

Kneel always when you light a fire – John Oxenham Sit at your camp fires conscious that it gives us more than heat and light.

During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters.

One of my favorite writers and noted American naturalist Aldo Leopold is, perhaps, the first to describe what is now known as a “trophic cascade”.

Our old brown earth has, once again, wobbled through winter and brought spring to the northern hemisphere.

Here is part of the abstract of a report entitled “Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation” by Oliver Pergams and Patricia Zaradic.

Autumn’s crisp temperatures, fall colors and clear nights make for great camping.

Things that stand the test of time.

A recently published study from the University of Rochester asserts that Nature Makes Us More Caring “Stopping to experience our natural surroundings can have social as well as personal benefits,” says Richard Ryan, coauthor and professor of psychology, psychiatry and education at the University of Rochester.

I am the heat of your hearth on the cold winter nights, the friendly shade screening you from the summer sun, and my fruits are refreshing draughts quenching your thirst as you journey on.

This article from the New Your Times reports that children with ADHD benefited from short walks in natural settings.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Kneel always when you light a fire.