A great article, thanks for sharing this💚🌿🙏 I am a 65 year old woman from Norway and write about Nature and how we can get back to that connection we had to Nature from the beginning. Most people today are disconnected and we need to remember where we come from and belong.
thanks for reading! its good to know there are other writers out there who understand the importance of this connection (and how it has diminished). We need to share and discuss how to rebuild that connection, otherwise we run the risk of losing these wild places
So much of what I do now is informed by the impact it will have on my children. I want to leave the world better than we found it. Thanks for doing your part.
What a beautiful ode to free range children, Tyler! You could say that in some respects, I too, was a free range child. When I was a toddler, still living on our arid farm in Hungary, I used to love stuffing rain boots with hay and retreating to an old tub that sat in the backyard when I wanted privacy. Those days were very long ago...
And then here in Romania, I used to climb the cherry tree in our yard, but I never went too high. I guess I was never very adventurous! But still, the creek, the mountains, the valleys, the meadows, the forests, all shaped me into the nature loving human I am today.
Always love the point of view you share. And how this idea, the child who gets to roam in nature is something we all experience around the world. It shows that nature can also connect us to each other through these wonderful shared experiences..even if we share them thousands of miles away
Thank you! I completely agree, our time spent in nature as children really does shape us. Unfortunately nowadays, especially in more populated areas, parents are rightfully worried for their children's safety alone outdoors. It's so sad how some lunatics on the street can ruin such a vital, and amazing, part of childhood... I hope this can change one day for the better...
Good on the frame up. I’m old with a family, I can’t be out on the streets doing that kind of work. But I sure can call the senators who voted for these bad policies, donate to the right causes and keep sharing messages like this
Yes! just like our views on nature it can get skewed by those larger for grand adventures. Protecting it can get skewed by those doing the heavy lifting, writing policy, etc…thinking “if I can’t do that then what’s the point?” the point is, anything we can do that moves the needle in the right direction is good.
I thought the US did a lot of trail maintenance and construction. And they care about nature. I keep reading about it, even here on Substack. I'm sorry if I'm wrong...
it is.. but there is always hope, seeing the community step up is important. Because while there should be those who maintain it, its always been the responsibility of the individuals venturing out to take care of it as well.
Oh this was powerful.
thank you for reading!
care
feel like that's where most people need to start, just to care
Get people’s heads out of their APPS
I remind them to do so every Friday, and to go outside
A great article, thanks for sharing this💚🌿🙏 I am a 65 year old woman from Norway and write about Nature and how we can get back to that connection we had to Nature from the beginning. Most people today are disconnected and we need to remember where we come from and belong.
thanks for reading! its good to know there are other writers out there who understand the importance of this connection (and how it has diminished). We need to share and discuss how to rebuild that connection, otherwise we run the risk of losing these wild places
So much of what I do now is informed by the impact it will have on my children. I want to leave the world better than we found it. Thanks for doing your part.
Thanks for reading and doing your part as well. The more voices we have working together, the greater impact we can make
Cheers to that!
What a beautiful ode to free range children, Tyler! You could say that in some respects, I too, was a free range child. When I was a toddler, still living on our arid farm in Hungary, I used to love stuffing rain boots with hay and retreating to an old tub that sat in the backyard when I wanted privacy. Those days were very long ago...
And then here in Romania, I used to climb the cherry tree in our yard, but I never went too high. I guess I was never very adventurous! But still, the creek, the mountains, the valleys, the meadows, the forests, all shaped me into the nature loving human I am today.
Always love the point of view you share. And how this idea, the child who gets to roam in nature is something we all experience around the world. It shows that nature can also connect us to each other through these wonderful shared experiences..even if we share them thousands of miles away
Thank you! I completely agree, our time spent in nature as children really does shape us. Unfortunately nowadays, especially in more populated areas, parents are rightfully worried for their children's safety alone outdoors. It's so sad how some lunatics on the street can ruin such a vital, and amazing, part of childhood... I hope this can change one day for the better...
Good on the frame up. I’m old with a family, I can’t be out on the streets doing that kind of work. But I sure can call the senators who voted for these bad policies, donate to the right causes and keep sharing messages like this
Yes! just like our views on nature it can get skewed by those larger for grand adventures. Protecting it can get skewed by those doing the heavy lifting, writing policy, etc…thinking “if I can’t do that then what’s the point?” the point is, anything we can do that moves the needle in the right direction is good.
I thought the US did a lot of trail maintenance and construction. And they care about nature. I keep reading about it, even here on Substack. I'm sorry if I'm wrong...
they did, however they have been cutting (reading:slashing) the staffing and budget for these types of endeavors in favor of more industrial ones.
And this is very sad.
it is.. but there is always hope, seeing the community step up is important. Because while there should be those who maintain it, its always been the responsibility of the individuals venturing out to take care of it as well.
Beautiful!