These blinks provide insights into the science of our connection with nature and how we can reimagine our relationship with the earth as equal and mutually beneficial. Negative ions can help the brain release serotonin and activate the parasympathetic nervous system, calming the body and the mind. Like Rachel Carson’s 1962 environmental classic, it is a forthright explication of the problems we face, backed up by volumes of irrefutable evidence, and it suggests some potential solutions. For me, a daily walk in the park, where I could breathe fresh air and see that the natural world was something close to thriving, was a rejuvenating experience. She discovers that our eyes respond to fractal patterns in nature because their internal physical structure is made up of similar patterns.

He believed that we need to acknowledge the primitive layers in our psyche, using the metaphor of a house to illustrate the concept. Lucy is a friend, so I've known about this book for a couple of years and, as someone with a fascination for neuroscience, I was curious to see how much evidence she could assemble to show a link between mental health and nature. Teoses on palju häid ettepanekuid, mida Rohepealinn 2023 vaimus linnaplaneerijatele ja -valitsuse töötajatele nina ette susata.This is another book that strongly advocates getting out there and using the natural world to help with a raft of mental and physical problems and this is written from the personal experience of addiction and being a new mother. Because “What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic , it affects the rest of the planet…” (123). But when proximity to nature can determine your health outcome, caring about the natural world is not a luxury. I completely understand what Jones was trying to achieve with this imagined future, and the stark warning it comes with, but it did not feel necessary in a work of non-fiction, and I do not feel as though it was a particularly good fit.

O. Wilson’s biophilia hypothesis: that the human love of nature is innate and that, over millennia of evolution as hunter-gatherers on the African savannah, we developed a predilection for open areas with clumps of trees and bodies of water – places that are ideal for settlement. She previously worked at NME and the Daily Telegraph, and her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in BBC Earth, BBC Wildlife, the Guardian, TIME and the New Statesman.Here, they sit together and experience nature – birds singing, trees growing – through a virtual-reality scene. 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. It's highly addictive to get core insights on personally relevant topics without repetition or triviality. For that certain humans should be in isolated conditions like lab rats and of course, this is unthinkable. Her first book, Foxes Unearthed, was celebrated for its 'brave, bold and honest' (Chris Packham) account of our relationship with the fox, winning the Society of Authors' Roger Deakin Award 2016.

She looks to her own experiences for evidence and remembers how big-city life in London seemed to exacerbate her experiences with depression and, later, drug and alcohol addiction. It even affects rates of recidivism so much that many prisons are now offering activities based around nature. A widespread safety-first mentality has made parents fearful of letting their children roam, and more congested roads mean it’s not as safe for kids to explore the outdoors. So many of us have heard of climate change (in recent years especially,) but why is it so easily ignored by so many? Perhaps we are noticing this all the more now, as we are in danger of losing the living world as we know it, and with it, potentially, part of ourselves.The 2nd edition of an expansive history of the American West in terms of its environmental heritage. Traditionally, nature has also helped people come to terms with their mortality – a corrective to our tendency to believe we are distinct from other animals. As the author states, “Nature is not a luxury: its presence or absence creates and causes different health outcomes for different groups of people” (105). Those who work night shifts were found in one Danish study, for instance, to have a 40% increased chance of contracting breast cancer than the general population. Jones had been sober for a couple of years, but she still struggled with feelings of doubt, resentment, and frustration.