Humans are Wired for Nature
It is around seven million years since our ancestors started evolving into the modern humans we are today.5 During this process of evolution we have spent more than 99.99 per cent of our time living in a natural environment. Our bodies are adapted to nature.6
Yoshifumi Miyazaki • Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku
“When one ponders humans existing less than 0.01% of the species’ history in modern surroundings and the other 99.99% of the time living in nature, it is no wonder some humans yearn and are drawn back to where human physiological/psychological functions began and were naturally supported,”
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
The human animal now lives in a strange and unfamiliar world. Our bodies, sculpted by millions of years of evolution, are not just ancient. They are prehistorical. Our anatomy, physiology, and psychology are adapted to life in a wild, outdoor environment. At our core, we are hunters and gatherers, primed for life in natural habitat. But today we’re
... See moreFrank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
As human beings, we were shaped by necessity. In those early, precarious days, survival meant coming together—forming tight-knit tribes, relying on each other, and adapting to the demands of the natural world. We depended on the land for food and shelter, learned to cooperate, and created tools and strategies to hunt, gather, and endure.
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
As human beings, we were shaped by necessity. In those early, precarious days, survival meant coming together—forming tight-knit tribes, relying on each other, and adapting to the demands of the natural world. We depended on the land for food and shelter, learned to cooperate, and created tools and strategies to hunt, gather, and endure.
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Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
Humans in more or less our current modern form have walked the earth for roughly three hundred thousand years. For all but the last ten thousand or so of these many years, we lived as seminomadic hunters and gatherers. These timescales are sufficiently vast for the insistent logics of natural selection to adapt our bodies and brains toward an exist
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