Can trees boost our creativity? My daily forest walks have changed how I write | Ilka Tampke

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• Ideas come more quickly, my thoughts roam freely, and I’m reminded I am not the main form of life on the planet I park my car near the trail head and leash up my labrador.
• Mist coils around the stringy trunks of the manna gums and I breathe in a lungful of cold, peppery air.
• With notebook in hand, I begin to walk.
• I learn a lot by walking in the forest every day.
• It’s like catching up on the daily news, but with a focus more ecological than political.