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They worried their kids were growing pale and suffering from Vitamin D deficiencies they themselves longed for scents of grass and trees again rather than exhaust and asphalt. 1930s city dwellers, especially those in New York City, feared the effects of urban living on health and children. Perhaps surprisingly, this is not a new worry.

Care for your inner life, not to mention a natural one as well! Writer Richard Louv states today's children—and a growing number of adults—suffer from "nature deficit disorder," that we have lost touch with our natural life in favor of a virtual one, detrimental to our physical and psychological health. Some recent books and magazines buck this trend, urging the practices of mindfulness, of the Danish concept of hygge, of meditation, of yoga. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.Butternut Wisdom: A Gladys Taber Fan Pageįinding Stillmeadow • "Butternut Wisdom" Columns • Bibliography • Links • Album If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work.

#Home Quotes #Bird Quotes #Sparrows Quotes Source : Gladys Bagg Taber, Barbara Webster (1953). “I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.” #Grief Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Worry Quotes It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.” “Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. #Selfish Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Thinking Quotes I can give some help to some people that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!” I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. “I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. #Dream Quotes #Time Quotes #Being Alone Quotes “We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. #Hate Quotes #Home Quotes #Fishing Quotes If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.” “The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. #Running Quotes #Wind Quotes #Voice Quotes And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.” If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. “Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. #Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes #Light Quotes “Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.”