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Cycling Your Way to Good Physical, Emotional and Environmental Health

Cycling Your Way to Good Physical, Emotional and Environmental Health, by LenaHemsworth. Photograph of a cyclist by Jack Alexander
Photograph by Jack Alexander

At a time when it is so easy to feel disconnected to yourself and to Mother Nature, cycling is a healthy and easy way to improve both your physical and mental health.

We seem to have forgotten that humans are animals too. Advanced animals — animals with sentience, art, music, and space exploration — but animals, nonetheless. What were once monkeys jumping around trees that later became prehistoric people walking through the savannah, today boils down to us cooped up in an office for 40 hours per week (if we are lucky). 

This isn’t to say that times were better before we had modern medicine, technology, better food, more stability, movies, TV shows, literature, travel, and almost anything we want. These are all wonderful things that our brains were quite literally incapable of imagining

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