B. Lorraine Smith

Even the auto mechanic has an interesting relationship with nature around here. Ja estou com saudades. #saopaulo #saudades (at São Paulo, Brazil)

Even on a busy evening, Av. Paulista, São Paulo is flanked and framed by trees. Though the city has removed much of its native Mata Atlântica, and replaced many exotic species where there are plantings (- trend @ricardo__cardim is working hard to reverse!), still its trees offer so many reminders of how connected we all are. #citytrees #urbantrees #mataatlântica #mataatlantica #saopaulo #natureza #weneedtrees #treesdontneedus (at Avenida Paulista)

Loved the opportunity to understand, listen, learn and connect with the hard-working, deep-thinking people of Fibria and their community partners in Aracruz earlier this week. A brief moment at the sea’s edge in the morning was a bit of grounding before re-immersing myself with the humans (and of course picking up a few pieces of ocean plastic...). #grateful #inspired #challenged #brasil #brazil #fibria #sustentabilidade #sustainability #naturalclimatesolutions (at Jacaraípe, Espirito Santo, Brazil)

Several flocks of humans cited in their (semi-) natural urban habitat earlier today on a glorious run in sunny #CentralPark #cityparks #nycparks #getoutside #weneedparks #weneedtrees

And then this was the #birdruckus competing with the city just a few hundred yards away from that newly #carfree stretch of #centralPark. What a difference - and this is in a holiday where there is minimal traffic. #carfreeparks #nycparks #livablecities #weneedbirds #birdsdontneedus

This was the #birdruckus in the newly #carfree #CentralPark at 9am this morning, at what was the busiest intersection of cars, when there were cars. Although his song is crowded out by the sparrow closer to the mic, there is a cardinal having a great time calling to his mate if you listen very closely. #carfreeparks #nycparks #livablecities #weneedbirds #birdsdontneedus

Trail running. Where everything is a sign. #trees #forest #trails #trailrunning #getoutside #tickchecktime

The effect of moving shadows - here cast by leaves fluttering first slowly, then quickly - feels like a video without any technology (although I happened to have captured it on my iPhone). I often wonder what it must have been like many generations back, when spectacles such as reflections of water on rocky shores, or the magical movement of the northern lights, or even shifting leaf shadows such as these, were observed. I am not sure about back then but for me, today, I find it completely awesome. And I really mean "awe" here.

There is something magical about the combination of leaves + sunlight + wind. #trees #timeoutside #freshair #longisland

Hello, beautiful dead dragonfly, Looks like you maybe hit the glass of this shop with all the plants in the window on E. 57th St. Or maybe you perished higher up and simply happened to land here? I wonder where you were heading? You blend in with the bluish sidewalk cement and the litter. No one seems to notice you, yet your ephemeral wings and amazing shape are wonders to behold. I am sorry you had to die here and not on a wildflower-strew lakeshore or in a frenzy of insect-eating in a bug cloud with your buddies. I am grateful for having seen you, though. Yours in connectedness, L: #dragonfly #urbandragonfly #natureincities #natureincity #nycnature #weneednature #wearenature

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