Humans are Wired for Nature
intentionally exposing ourselves to natural adversity is something of an unnatural act. When you evolve in a harsh outdoor environment, your natural inclination is to rest whenever possible; we’re deeply wired for relaxation and comfort-seeking. As hunter-gatherers, we were great movers, but when the mission was accomplished, we were happy to head
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The same body-habitat alliance is still at work today. In a normal human setting, children and young adults are quick to form bonds with their habitat, a phenomenon we now call “place attachment.” The human nervous system, primed by a million years of evolution, readily soaks up the features of the natural world, mapping it to the brain and body. U
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Without a deep connection to nature, people drift, grow negative, and destroy themselves spiritually and physically. Deeply connected to nature, we see beauty everywhere, including within ourselves.
Carol Schaefer • Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet
‘most of human history was spent in hunter-gatherer communities. And in these kinds of communities today—there aren’t many of them—you find a degree of cooperativeness, an absence of alienation that is unheard of in modern society. To ignore our social heredity is a serious mistake. There is a human capacity for good-natured cooperation that is sim
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“Homo sapiens officially became an urban species in 2007—that’s when the World Health Organisation reported that for the first time, more people throughout the world live in urban than rural areas ~ you are living in the middle of the largest mass migration in modern times.
Here are some crazy statistics:
People only spend 1 to 5% of their tim
The ultimate enriched environment is nature. Nature is the most aesthetic of places, because it is our original home.