When guiding forest bathing walks, many times we complete our journey by sitting in a circle and sharing tea. If possible, the tea will consist of plants gathered in the forest during the walk. In...

Valentine’s Day. Do you see it as a capitalist ploy to get us to buy more stuff? Do you prefer to make it a holiday in celebration of women, a la Eve Ensler’s V-Day movement? Perhaps...

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees.” -William Blake

I never knew an aspen...

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have come to our real journey.” -Wendell Berry

I left at...

Throughout my life, the natural world has always been a healing balm for me. As a child in the New York suburbs, I found quiet sanction in my many pets and backyard trees. In my college years at...

I used to think it was strange that the new year began in the middle of winter (or even in the summer for people in the southern hemisphere). I always wondered why it didn’t start in spring....

The first day of winter is upon us in the northern hemisphere, but truly if you live in a temperate climate then you know that winter started a few weeks ago. The first coat of glaring white snow,...