Williams writes of everything from a National Forest Plan in Korea, which offers prenatal classes in the woods and kindergartens immersed in the forest, to Health Nature Trails in Finland that cues visitors to express gratitude outside with stone altars and
small chapels dotted throughout.
Way back in July, Steven Earl Salmony, a frequent comment contributor and a blogger and psychologist from
Chapel Hill, N.C., posted an invitation to
Dot Earth visitors to meet at the New York Times office on the first Monday in October, and sure enough, a
small cluster of
Dot Earthers did convene yesterday.