Natural Timing

* Reminder: The Savor of the Month theme for July is DOORS. Details here; chat thread here. Currently you have to be a Supporter to contribute to the thread because I was getting too much spammy stuff, but I may open it up again later. “The nature we put into our days is, of course, the amount of nature in our lives.”Longtime TAoN readers will recall Alastair Humphreys, a veteran writer and adventurer who has become an expert on finding the remarkable in the local. (I wrote about that back in issue 95.) He’s particularly insightful and inspiring on the natural world, so I was excited to hear about his latest book, Unwilded. Alastair writes: Unwilded is a book about learning to notice the world again and finding our way back to nature. It argues that our constant digital connection has dulled our engagement with the natural world – and that this disconnection is harming not only the planet, but our own wellbeing too. We have become unwilded, and urgently need a simple, slow, offline…