A portal into our spaces: nature in action.

  Outside a museum. Tucked in a city block. Next to the intensive care unit. Our Sacred Places are designed for easy access to nature where and when people need it most. What does that look like? How does it work? Here, we serve up day-to-day Nature Sacred stories, lessons learned, and short vignettes of community life to give you the flavor—a sense of the kinds of things that happen in our Sacred Places.

A peek inside a Sacred Place | Fort Payne, AL

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Happening upon a Sacred Place

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A Drop-in to Patterson Park

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Langton Green — Community Innovation at work

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One garden. Two pandemics. A hundred years.

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Nature, Art & Community | Coping in Crisis

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Nature and a New Beginning

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Social repair—through nature.

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Urban forest bathing: a city movement—nationwide

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Introducing STEP into the Garden

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What happens in a college green space? More than you may imagine.

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Even small urban green spaces can lower depression rates, new research confirms

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Fountains in urban green spaces

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You’ve built it. Now what? (Hint: programming!)

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Nature is Sanctuary.

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A Road to Wellness

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Baltimore prepares to meet national 10 minute walk campaign challenge

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Creativity blooms in Northeast Alabama

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A filmmaker’s perspective; Alden Stoner on Hurricane Healing Garden

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At Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, nature is helping wounded warriors heal from invisible wounds

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Nature Meets Healthcare in Portland, Oregon

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How nature helped one Rockaway community recover following Hurricane Sandy

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Innovative hospitals incorporate garden design

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Gardens engage the mind, muscles, and hope

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Riots, Respite and Renewal in West Baltimore

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A Landscape of Resilience and Perseverance

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Nature Sacred community spaces open and thriving

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A Healing Garden for nurses, patients and family

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What would I do without the gardens?

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Equitable Urban Green Space Initiatives

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Exploring the Diversity of TKF Open Spaces Sacred Places

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Shinrin Yoku

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A Meditative Space for a Seattle Community

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The Rosy Periwinkle in Your Garden

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Veterans Day: Helping Military Service Members Heal Through Nature

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"Thank you for this tool I can share with my 7-year-old daughter, for this labyrinth makes meditation easy for the young to understand."

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