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Count the Animals You See
This week’s experiment to count the animals you see is inspired by the marvelous book “Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards.”
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Notice How Time in Nature Makes You Feel
Nitin Das’s “How Forests Heal People” is a beautiful meditative film about how nature affects us. Will a nature break today change your mood?
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Find Central Park’s Woodland Speakeasy
Just steps from busy 59th Street is a secret woodland that, for more than 80 years, only birds, raccoons, and the occasional coyote could visit. Now Central Park’s Hallett Nature Sanctuary is open to…
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Discover a Labyrinth in NYC
Here’s an unusual way to slow down in NYC: Take a contemplative walk through a grassy labyrinth in Battery Park.
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Walk Into the Walden Zone
To truly notice nature, we have to let go of our smartphones. Only then will we, just like Thoreau, find our Walden Zone when we go outside.
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Put Nature on Your Calendar
If you want to simplify your life and pay more attention to urban nature, put natural events on your calendar. Give yourself reminders to pay careful attention to wildlife migration and plant life-cycles in…
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Currently Reading: New Slow City
William Powers tries out the self-paced and simple life in NYC in his thought-provoking new memoir “New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City.”
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Enter a Secret Garden in the West Village
How can you savor the Slow Life in the city that never sleeps? Make a daily visit to a green patch near your work and home. One of my favorite green spots in Manhattan…
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Throw a Dart at a Map
It’s not always easy to live a Slow life in a city that wants you to speed up. Try this experiment if you’re out of vacation days, have burned through your budget, or have…
● About Me
I’m Traci and this is my love letter to the place where I discovered the natural world – New York City. More about me >
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