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Trusting Nature Over the Systems That Betray Us

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Michelle Dowd
Mar 07, 2025
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Our Mother let us wander anywhere we wanted in the Angeles National Forest when we moved there as small children. There, nature had rules we could trust. Unlike the Field, she didn’t restrict where we went and didn’t ask us what time we would return, but she did tell us what to do if we ran into trouble.

“Never put your hands or feet anywhere you can’t s…

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