Throughout, Jones has called upon a lot of nature writers and ecologists, drawing upon their prose and ideas. One of the real strengths in Losing Eden is the way in which she writes about the incredibly diverse reaction to nature through the ages. When Petrarch, for instance, climbed Mont Ventoux in 1336, Jones remarks: ‘… he chastised himself for “admiring earthly things” and fled angrily from the peaks in shame.’ From the eighteenth-century in Britain, when travel for the middle classes became more widespread, blinds were pulled down on trains to ‘avoid offence’ from the ‘mountains and hills that had previously been seen as pimples, warts or blisters on the surface of God’s earth.’

Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth.The blueprint exists to help us remake human habitats to incorporate nature. But climate scientists and ecologists tell us that time is running out. We need to restore our relationship with the Earth – to see ourselves as part of the larger ecosystem, not as conquerors of it. Kui on üldse olemas raamat, mida ma soovitaks *kõigil inimestel* lugeda, siis see oleks Lucy Jonesi “Paradiisi kaotades”. Lugesin selle maal aias istudes ühe päevaga läbi, teos suurendas minus ühtekuuluvustunnet maakese suhtes ning liigutas! (Lisaks on ka tõlge hea&ladus)

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones attempts to show us the science behind intuitive knowledge that being in nature is good for us. Time spent in nature often falls on socioeconomic lines. As we’ve seen in earlier blinks, there are fewer parks in deprived parts of towns and cities than in affluent neighborhoods, which tend to be more verdant. But it goes deeper than that. People in lower socioeconomic groups or from racial and ethnic minorities have less access to natural areas. Vulnerable populations suffer more exposure to pollution and toxic chemicals. And society is only becoming more unbalanced as our alienation from nature is exacerbated. This is a “hymn to the healing power of nature” and a gem of a non-fiction book. We all know spending time in nature is good for us, but this book explains the science behind why, and it’s not all the reasons you’d presume. Urgent, accessible, moving [...] A beautifully written, research-heavy study about how nature offers us wellbeing"Wonderfully intoxicating. In meticulous detail, Jones quests to bring us an impressive array of answers to the question of whether ‘nature connection’ has a tangible effect on our minds, and how and why it does.” This is an insightful environmental read on the existential impacts of our separation from nature. Lucy Jones waxes poetic with her prose about the wild while she presents rigorous research on the myriad benefits of exposure and immersion in nature on our mental health and childhood development.