(We have come to appreciate going for a walk. In these days of social distancing with brief dashes to the grocery store to restock the pantry and the refrigerator, the thirty or forty or sixty minutes we spend taking brisk or semi-brisk walks in various parts of our neighborhood provide a welcome break from seeing the same walls, sitting in the same chairs, and occupying ourselves indoors. Dr. Crane nails it with the first line of this essay. We’re not so sure about the third line, however.)
OUTDOORS
A good dose of Outdoors would cure almost anything.
Quit wearing a hat and let your hair Outdoors for that bald spot.
Go barefoot and your feet will slip back ten years…
Go Outdoors and get rid of Nerves. They live in the house.
Other rats and mice that infest houses are Dyspepsia, Constipation, Liver Complaint, Peplessness, and Insomnia.
Not only Bodily Ailments, but all other kinds of plagues and nuisances are house creatures.
Creeds were all made in stuffy rooms. Religion, faith, hope, love, and courage inhabit the woods and meadows, sail the seas, and seek wind and sun.
Jesus taught Outdoors. Ecclesiastical Council are held behind closed doors. The decline of religion is traceable from the Sermon on the Mount to the Sermon in the asphyxiating Meeting- House.
Education ought to be Outdoors. My favorite dream is The University of Outdoors, where pupils go shoeless and hatless and learn under the starts.
This University would teach the child how to be as healthy as a panther. And healthy bodies would obviate most neurasthenic intellectual vagaries.
Where but the Outdoors can you learn Botany, Geology, Astronomy, and the like? Real Science lives Outdoors, as much as Leap-frog.
Play Outdoors.
Even Kissing is better Outdoors…When you chase a girl a half a mile to kiss her you realize what real Kissing is.
Eating is better Outdoors. A horse is healthier than a man because a horse has to walk after every bite of grass he gets…
Children thrive Outdoors and pine in the house.
Outdoors is cheap and plenty.
God made outdoors; man made Indoors.
And God lives Outdoors; in man-made edifices are—Idols.