This I Believe

There a lot of things that I believe, here are some of them;

I believe that time spent outside is time well spent. I believe that riding your bike to work isn’t just a way to save the environment, but a way to experience it. I believe in what author Ken Kesey once wrote, “you’ve got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine.” I believe that the summer nights I spent sleeping on the sands of Assateague under the stars were my Sunday morning church services. I believe in the cleansing nature of fresh mountain air. I believe in hiking in a skirt and flip-flops if it comes to it, clothes are clothes, but sunshine is a blessing. I believe that everyone should plant a garden, green thumb or not. I believe that when daisies bloom in spring the whole world becomes a little happier. I believe that I know little to nothing about the science of, or the current events surrounding, the environment, but nevertheless remain gravely concerned with its wellbeing. I believe that spinning in circles under the gently pouring water at YS falls was not simply interacting with nature, but communing with it. I believe that my love of nature is one that comes as a result of aesthetic infatuation and emotional connections. I believe that living on the top of a hill, in a rural mountain town is worth the snowy, quarter mile hike to the house, because the view from the porch looks like the front of a postcard. I believe that when snow falls, the damaged lands that we so deeply mourn over, appear, at least for a short time, healed.