gettingtheoutsidein.com - Getting the Outside In > Opening your inner world to the wonder of nature

Description: Extolling the benefits that come from spending at least a few moments outside every day. Includes ideas for further reading, fun facts, quotes, and poems. Suggestions are included for activities you and your children can do outside.

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Winnie the Pooh is a hero of mine.  He gets to spend all that time outdoors and he sees the world through the eyes of one who doesn’t overthink things, as I often do. Pooh once remarked that “people say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”  Clever bear. And August is the perfect month […]

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Driving the back roads of New Jersey I realize I am hopelessly lost. The directions I’ve been given are incomplete. Neither the map nor my GPS show the road I am traveling, which turns out to be a dead end. I turn around – again, and stop at a small town gas station for directions. […]