Someone needs a hug

Both we and nature can benefit from from connecting in better ways

Connecting to nature, free hugs for everyone

Illustration and text by Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org

Someone needs a hug, busy on a phone, business could be better, but today it is Valentines day, and maybe a good day to look up, and out, on a planet that needs a hug, almost as much as we, lonely, technology swallowed humans do

businessman busy on the phone as mother Earth reach out to hug him - illustration by Frits Ahlefeledt — Someone needs a hug

More people every year in reviews state that they are more and more lonely and as we stare at our screens for more than ten hours every day on average, hugs are not what we are closest at.

Someone needs a hug more than ever, and that someone is us, both to hug each other, to hug nature and to hug the planet, like we used to do…