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How urban environments affect gratitude practices

I try to practice gratitude but when I look around all I see is plastic and concrete and I can't find anything natural to appreciate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Spiritual practices designed for connection with the natural world encounter the challenge of artificial environments that obscure rather than reveal interdependence.

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“Where Are You with Buddhist ecology?”

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