Love the article, but not the quote There is more information available at our fingertips during a walk in the woods than in any computer system, yet p

Love the article, but not the quote There is more information available at our fingertips during a walk in the woods than in any computer system, yet people find a walk among trees relaxing and computers frustrating. which I can pick apart as-a-fox in many ways, not least in that the woods is a much less olfactory active space than, say, a downtown street where the smell of cooking lights up my senses. In a pagan circle this weekend I walked around a creek which has particularly smelly mud and moss that has something you feel rather than sense, like Sandalwood, and I could pick up the warning signals that trees give off by scuffing leaves with my fingers. When I walked back to the circle there was something really strong around the perimeter than people brought in. Also people have no idea how to read forests, like knowing a lot about it I can look at a bucolic scene and see "this is what overshoot looks like" but I can't expect others to see that. Insofar as I have any skill at forest reading it is because I've been looking at particular forests frequently over decades.