For one thing, it is a transcendentalist tribute, the contours of which are predictable: an intellectual living in Boston owns a vacation home in Maine. They go up there a few times a year to fill up their nature reserves, then import those back into their circles in academia/literature/media at the end of summer. That's been a cottage industry for a couple of hundred years now (Emerson, Thoreau, et al.)
That's not a big deal, I live in Maine, and this kind of mining is good for the economy. What bothers me is the piece feels compelled to cite studies such as an Oberlin "nature scale" (which seems insane) and various surveys and other studies to provide an academic backing to their run-of-the-mill transcendentalism. This approach to naturalism seems to denude whatever point they are trying to make.
As if we need experts to confirm our nature to love nature? Who is this written for?