I can't remember where I read this quote (if someone knows, let me know so I can give credit!), but I thought it was a great little piece of writing and a good reminder to head out into the wild -- even if that is just a few minutes of silence in the backyard -- this Labor Day:
"If the purpose -- and the beauty -- of large cities is the "absence of physical space between people," as Harvard economist Ed Glaeser says, the point and joy of wilderness is proximity to nothing much at all."
"If the purpose -- and the beauty -- of large cities is the "absence of physical space between people," as Harvard economist Ed Glaeser says, the point and joy of wilderness is proximity to nothing much at all."
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