he would send people out to look for objects that suggested interconnections, or change. When they returned with what they’d found, they’d discuss how it might relate to their life and specific situations.

how to create grass-free lawns and suggests red flowered daisies (Bellis), white flowered buttercups (Ranunculus) and bronze-leaved bugle (Ajuga) as examples of plants that would work in the climate of Western Europe.18

The state of active addiction is alienating. It involves a level of obsession with self and substance which can lead to isolation from others, even if you are regularly socializing. Nature had felt too wholesome for my sense of shame.

Wild swimmers often report improvements in depressive symptoms and an increase in the ‘animation and vigour’

lack of access to nature isn’t the only barrier.

exposure to the more-than-human world has an important relationship to human mental health

It will disrupt our communities, identities and social environments in more subtle ways than we can yet imagine. This effect has been called ‘slow violence’.28 It is going to lead to mental health issues and a sense of distress and disorder.

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the greener a building’s surroundings were, the fewer the total crimes.