Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild

Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant thing you can do, especially in the city

Could our lack of contact with the natural world be a contributing factor to high levels of inflammation, which could be related to depression and other mental health disorders?

Negative ions are more abundant around water and natural areas

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

Awe, then, can shift us away from pure self-interest to be interested in others. It can help us bond and relate to each other. It can turn off the self, the day-to-day concerns, to propel us into focusing on something bigger and hard to comprehend.

Without our realizing it, our genes may well govern our aesthetic preferences.

Numerous studies show that outdoor learning boosts children’s social and psychological growth.

green micro-break boosted subcortical arousal and cortical attention control.

a connection with nature in childhood leads to a connection with nature in adulthood.