Chaparral---how we learn from nature.

The Santa Margarita Group Sierra Club is excited to present Rick Halsey, director of the California Chaparral Institute, as speaker for our General Meeting on Thursday, Sept. 4th at 4pm.

He will discuss how we enrich our lives through local native habitats, especially the chaparral, California’s most extensive, characteristic habitat.

From Rick:
Discovering Ourselves Through Nature
For over two million years we evolved outside, in Nature, driven by our instincts. Over the last several thousand years, our newly conscious minds have tried to reconcile the demands of civilization and our ancient, wild selves. Yet within each of us remains an intimate connection with the natural world that can help us discover new possibilities, enhance our joy, and extend our lives. Many of the most influential philosophers, from Epicurus, to Nietzsche, to Jung have reflected on these ideas. Current research has confirmed much of the same.