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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
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BOOKSHELF
Published, appeared in, recommended
WE PUBLISHED

BenchTalk: Wisdoms Inspired in Nature
Preface by Alden E. Stoner · Salma Hasan Ali, editor

Open Spaces, Sacred Places
Tom Stoner and Carolyn Rapp
WE APPEAR IN

Nature and the Mind
Marc G. Berman, PhD

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
LISTEN
Podlet & conversations

BenchStories
Journal entries read aloud by Salma Hasan Ali. Twelve episodes a year, three to five minutes each.
EPISODE
6
Summer 2026
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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
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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
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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

Health Gig
Episode 464 · September 2024
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Hidden Brain
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Huberman Lab
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