2024-07-22
14 分钟Think of the last time you were in nature. How did it make you feel? This week, a forager, a cave diver, a birding enthusiast, and science writer share why connecting with nature is so illuminating and how to benefit from more outside time this summer.
Ted audio collective, you're listening to how to be a better human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
This week we've got a compilation of some of our favorite moments from previous episodes of the show.
One of the cool things about the fact that we've gotten to talk to so many people over the years of doing this show is that the producers and I have started to find some themes that come up again and again and again in these interviews.
And one of the themes that comes up a lot is how powerful and important it is to find a way to connect with nature.
Now, as I've talked about a lot on this show, I am a city boy.
I grew up in a small apartment in a big building in a huge city.
We did not have a front yard.
We did not have a backyard.
If I wanted to touch grass, I was going to a park, and I was going to be touching grass that a lot of other people had already touched before me.
But you know what?
That didn't make it any less special to be laying out on that lawn or to to be looking out at the river or to be walking in the shade of a tree.
And while my family did live in that big city, we still managed to get out into nature, whether that was visiting friends or hiking or camping, being surrounded by a pine forest or jumping into a lake, or the one time that we saw a moose in a bog.
Those are memories that stand out so vividly in my mind.
They're times when I felt small in the best way.
I was in awe.
And also at the same time, I was smelling smells that were not just hot garbage and pee.
So, you know, there were a lot of victories there.
What I'm trying to say is that even for me, even for a person who thinks it's unnatural and frankly, weird, anytime I'm in a place where I can't see other people around me, even I got to experience the power of connecting with nature.
And on today's show, we are going to have thoughts and insights from people much smarter than me about the natural world and about our relationship to it and why that is so important and what we can do to cultivate it.