Everyone knows time in nature is good for your health, walking is good for your creativity, etcetera, but I also think there’s something incredibly important about the sheer fact of being outside a lot in these apocalyptic-feeling, social-media-addled, AI-distorted, disinformation-saturated times. The sheer outsideness of outside (as opposed to beautiful landscapes or inspiring walks, great as they are). You know what I mean? This is the opening paragraph of John Stilgoe’s 1998 book Outside Lies Magic: