PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 19, 2022
We walk through, run through, hike through, bike through, swim through, sail through, zip through and fly through nature, because time in nature is important to us, but we are also busy. But even though you are moving through, you are separate – you’re outside. If you really want to experience nature, you need to sit in it. For a while. Let yourself sink in. Watch the birds as they fly past you, unseen. Listen to the water, and the whispering leaf wind of the maples. Feel the sun as it rotates. Look at the tiny lichen hands, maybe thousands of years old, battling with boulders and winning. Watch as the bugs reveal themselves to you from their hiding places. Sit on the Earth itself. Try it once. You might find it thrilling. Be in nature. ~ Peter Jacobs, Biddeford