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Does returning to nature help us reclaim a sense of meaning?
Hosts discuss how brief encounters with nature foster reflection and insight by contrasting fast-paced lives with nature’s slower rhythms, citing Aldo Leopold’s environmental ethics.
- Episode 223 of Crossroads Today has Richard Kyte, director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University, and Scott Rada exploring whether brief outdoor visits can foster reflection and balance.
- Many people feel unmoored despite busier lives, and outdoor settings operate on slower, quieter rhythms that shift attention from activity to observation.
- Anecdotes include a student who slept in a hammock on the bluffs above La Crosse and hosts' personal reflections on urban wildlife and city parks, drawing on Aldo Leopold's ethic of affection and attention.
- These practices—quiet city parks, early morning walks and noticing—can offer restorative rewards similar to wilderness, and Kyte says confronting surroundings without distraction fosters personal insight.
- Adopting small, accessible outdoor practices could help people regain balance and meaning if widely embraced, linking to Aldo Leopold's ethic and recognizing living communities and environmental ethics.
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Does returning to nature help us reclaim a sense of meaning?
The Ethical Life podcast: The hosts explore how time outdoors shapes awareness, balance and curiosity, and why modern routines often distract people from deeper insight found through quiet observation.
·Omaha, United States
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