The summer issue of Orion Magazine is on Nature and Culture, our essential need for nature.  Look outside.  Walk outside.  Rest; renew, blessed.

E.O. Wilson, a writer, biologist, and naturalist wrote: 

Planet Earth will enter a new era of its history,

cheerfully called by some the Anthropocene, a time

for and all about our own species alone.  I prefer to 

call it the Eremocene, the Age of Loneliness.  

Rachel Carson  in Silent Spring wrote:  “Our origins are of the earth, and so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.”

On Saturday we were blessed to be in DeLaveaga Park in the rain.