Quote #18020
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
Leslie Grimutter
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The speaker frames “health” as something restored less by clinical intervention than by a change in daily life: reducing bureaucratic, desk-bound obligations (“paperwork”) and returning to unmediated physical experience (“running barefoot through the grass”). The contrast implies a critique of modern work culture—its stress, abstraction, and sedentary routines—and elevates simplicity, play, and contact with nature as therapeutic. The word “prescription” borrows medical authority to endorse a non-medical remedy, suggesting that well-being is often a matter of reclaiming time, movement, and sensory presence rather than adding more tasks or treatments.




