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Often something like “get outside and touch grass” is posted online encouraging folks to, well, get outside, get offline, touch nature, and live. Essentially, it’s a shortened version of Thoreau’s Walden.

Henry David Thoreau on touching grass.

Source: https://forestnation.com/blog/transcendentalist-walk-woods-ecology-lesson-plan/ and the broader quote from https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2690-i-went-to-the-woods-because-i-wished-to-live:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms…”

Anyway, this is essentially what my wife and I did yesterday. We loaded the kayaks, drove, got a little lost, got found, launched, paddled, found a remote spot, picnicked. Skinny dipping was considered, but that is unconfirmed.