Can People Ever Be Close to Nature?
5 min readJul 16, 2021
Growing up in small, coastal towns in the Pacific Northwest, I always felt at home in nature. And of course I felt close to it, as some of the most beautiful forestland in the world was right outside my doorstep. The forests, the mountains, the beaches — I spent far more time exploring these places than I ever did walking around malls or any other urban environment.