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To: Dale Baker who wrote (171856)	9/11/2011 9:59:08 AM
From: herenow_2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543310

Dale, thanks for posting. So true! My husband and I spent three and a half hours hiking at Great Falls yesterday. A great way to renew the spirit.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (171856)	9/11/2011 10:40:24 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543310

I really like this article- but actually, people don't even need to get out in wild nature, you can just get out in the city- and walk walk walk. Walk the public city parks, the hiking trails- all in cities. As the article says, it doesn't cost anything, and if you go to a city park to walk, you don't need to even have the money to drive to a national or state park (which can be a bit costly, depending on where you live.) I find the "canyons", between some of the gorgeous old buildings, of SF quite amazing. And Golden Gate Park is bigger than Central Park. In some parts of it, you'd never know you were in the city- you'd swear you were hiking in some wild place. Yesterday we were on Segways running around vineyards, and though it wasn't wild land, we saw great wildlife, got a lot of exercise, and certainly weren't sitting on the couch :-) I would like to see our large areas of wilderness well protected, but also important are our small areas of nature, and every city should encompass parks, so that all citizens, even the ones without cars, can walk in the trees, and play on large stretches of grass. Most European cities are cities of parks- and that blend of nature and the city is, imo, one of the things that allows humans to live very close to each other, and still keep their sanity.