TIMES RECORD • May 13, 2021
Unfortunately, as Americans have moved from the countryside to large metros, millions of us have lost any sensual connection with the woods and nature. As a country we need to get back to the woods more as adults. We need to go camping and wake up on a chilly, dewy morning agitated by the lack of urban comforts. We need to be humbled and brought back to our “common senses” by the sounds, views, smells and demands of nature – so that maybe we can avoid some of the pretension and smugness that is negatively impacting our public discourse and bringing us so much government nonsense. ~ Tom Purcell