Episode 16: The Wilds of Urbia
/Becoming alive to beauty in the city's great outdoors
Photo by Elena Rossini
“My sometimes-tendency to overlook my physical environment is not only about preferring the world of ideas. It’s also about something more banal: a lack of patience, a tendency to rush. ”
When we talk about the outdoors, we often think of mountains, rivers, or seashores -- places that are wild and untouched. But even in cities, there's a world outside our walls.
On this episode, New York-based writer Jessica Gross recounts how a simple experiment changed the way she sees the urban outdoors.