How to get outside and enjoy nature — on your own terms

Life Kit

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Enjoying the outdoors can look like anything from walking the dog to celebrating Indigenous culture — you don't have to hike the tallest mountain peaks or go camping to love nature. Learn how to find your footing in nature in a way that works best for you.

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0:00.0	This is MPR's life kit, I'm Gabrielle Horton.
0:03.6	As a kid growing up in Los Angeles, I loved being outside,
0:07.7	making mud pies, doing cartwheels, and collecting roly-poles
0:11.7	were some of my favorite ways to enjoy the outdoors.
0:15.2	But as I got older, something shifted.
0:18.0	Perhaps a mix of what I was seeing in magazines and on TV,
0:21.5	plus other people's ideas of what makes someone an outdoorsy person.
0:25.6	I started noticing that my love for the outdoors...
0:28.6	well, I got complicated.
0:30.8	It felt like only big in nature mattered.
0:33.9	You know, the national parks, ski trips,
0:37.4	overnight camping...
0:39.1	All fun things, but activities that require a certain level of physical mobility,
0:43.5	lots of travel time, and of course money.
0:46.8	Well, I could save up a plan for some of those bigger experiences here and there.
0:51.1	I also realized just how deeply I felt about little in nature.
0:55.0	The smaller, day-to-day moments that gave me a chance to bring nature in
0:59.3	my way and with greater ease.
1:02.2	I know over the past two years as we've all had to renegotiate our relationship
1:05.9	with the outdoors, I've been thinking about this a lot.
1:10.0	For this episode of Life Kit, I got a chance to talk to several nature enthusiasts
1:14.0	about ways that all of us might find our footing outdoors.
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