Can’t embrace friends and family these days? Hug a tree instead: That is the message Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority is spreading on social media to try to help people overcome the coronavirus social-distancing blues
APOLLONIA NATIONAL PARK, Israel - Can’t embrace friends and family these days? Hug a tree instead.
“In this unpleasant corona period we recommend to people around the world to go out to nature, take a deep breath, hug a tree, express your love and get love,” Orit Steinfeld, the authority’s marketing director, said in Apollonia National Park. Also out in the park, Moshe Hazan said he wanted to widen his embrace beyond his partner, Pat Arthur, who accompanied him to the forest.
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