Benefits of being out in Nature
Aristotle believed that the outdoors clarified the mind. Darwin and Einstein claimed that a walk in the woods helped them think. John Muir felt that we should fight the tendency to become “ tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people of the city”, and Walt Whitman warned of the city’s “pestiferous little gratifications in the absence of nature.” And now neuroscientists are showing that nature makes us happier, healthier and more creative.
It is the mission of the hiking group to help you derive not only these benefits but to also have fun doing so and develop lasting friendships with your fellow OG members.
A simple model would be to pick a time a place, say, the reservoir off Farmington Ave and who ever come, comes. So if you are interested in a hiking group, let Ed Turbert know.