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Nature Sacred · Since 1996

What's happening across the Network.

Firesoul stories, research findings, press, film, and voices from the benches — a running record of what nearby nature is doing for people. Read it, watch it, or listen on the way somewhere.

IN THE PRESS

The Baltimore Sun

November 2024

WUSA-TV

June 2026

THREE WAYS IN

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BOOKSHELF

Published, appeared in, recommended

WE PUBLISHED

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BenchTalk: Wisdoms Inspired in Nature

Preface by Alden E. Stoner · Salma Hasan Ali, editor

Open Spaces Sacred Places book cover by Tom Stoner and Carolyn Rapp

Open Spaces, Sacred Places

Tom Stoner and Carolyn Rapp

WE APPEAR IN

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Nature and the Mind

Marc G. Berman, PhD

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Well at Work

Esther M. Sternberg, MD

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WATCH

Broadcast & films

Short films, news segments, and quiet visits.

IN THE PRESS

TV segment · WUSA-TV · 4 min

WUSA9 visits Crispus Attucks Park, a hidden acre in Bloomingdale.

Reporter Allison Seymour walks the park behind the rowhouses with Alden Stoner, CEO of Nature Sacred.

Broadcast and online · June 1, 2026

OUR OWN FILMS

Hospital Campus Sacred Place tour

What can happen in Sacred Places?

A quiet tour: a Sacred Place at The League for People with Disabilities

More films from across the national Nature Sacred Network live on our YouTube channel.

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More films from across the national Nature Sacred Network live on our YouTube channel.

Visit the channel →

LISTEN

Podlet & conversations

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BenchStories

Journal entries read aloud by Salma Hasan Ali. Twelve episodes a year, three to five minutes each.

EPISODE

6

Summer 2026

·

4:56

What Emerges in Nature

One person described two worlds. At home: yelling, slamming doors. On a bench in nature: a breeze rustling, a fountain gurgling. Everything changes.

EPISODE

5

Summer 2026

·

4:11

What Surfaces

“I came to talk to the willows. They speak very slowly. No rush.” This is what people write when they finally sit still.

EPISODE

4

Summer 2026

·

6:01

This Place Saved My Life

Someone found this place accidentally the day they almost didn’t survive it. Walking dogs through a cemetery, a headstone caught their attention—a gay veteran, proud. That moment, that place, saved their life.

CONVERSATIONS WE’VE JOINED

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Health Gig

Episode 464 · September 2024

OVERHEARD

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Hidden Brain

Episode to confirm

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Huberman Lab

Episode to confirm

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