gardening as a counterforce to disconnect, a salve to the illusion of human separateness and control, and a path toward what it means to live a truly good life.

The physician and writer, Oliver Sacks, explains the value of gardens:

“As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and... See more

Attention Restoration is based on their finding that natural settings are a highly effective way of giving our task-focused thinking a rest and restoring our mental energy. When we overuse our conscious cognitive processing skills, we are susceptible to what they called ‘attention fatigue’ and the brain becomes less able to inhibit distracting

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