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	Podcast:		A Cape Cod Notebook from WCAI
	Episode:		Why Do We Need Nature - Part Two
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:07
	Publish Date:		2020-09-08 11:30:30
	Description:		Over the years I have attempted to answer that question again and again: Why do we need nature in an essential but non-utilitarian way – the way we need music or art or literature – or love? Today I’d like to give you just two of the answers I’ve come up with – knowing that, like all such answers, they are inadequate. One reason I believe we fundamentally need nature is the physical contact that nature affords. For one thing, most of the best nature writers I know have begun their life-long passion for the natural world with just such playful, undirected interactions. But this, ironically, goes against the current environmental catechism. More and more we are told not to physically interact with the natural world. “Take only photographs, leave only footprints” is the contemporary environmentalist’s mantra – and as we know, in a sensitive place like Cape Cod, even footprints are looked down upon. I have on more than one occasion been criticized for urging greater physical contact with
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