It seems like every­where you turn these days, someone is advoc­at­ing a ​“return to nature” urging us to go back to sim­pler times. We hear this phrase all the time, but what does it really mean? Are we meant to give up all that we love about the mod­ern age, in order to find some deep­er wis­dom or save the plan­et? We don’t think so. Estab­lish­ing a con­nec­tion to nature, wheth­er on an adven­ture tour through a dark, mys­ter­i­ous forest, a long walk in a mead­ow, or swim­ming in a moun­tain lake, has noth­ing to do with regres­sion or going back in time. Quite the con­trary. People who want to live in har­mony with nature and respect for the ele­ments are pion­eers – they belong to a new age of avant­garde thinkers. Fore­run­ners who know how to blend mod­ern life and the power of nature.