Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
I have come to understand that deep existential processes can be involved in creating and caring for a garden. So I find myself asking, How does gardening have its effects on us? How can it help us find or re-find our place in the world when we feel we have lost it?
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
Escaping our built environment and spending time in green spaces is a simple and effective way to enhance not only our experiential connections (i.e. physical interactions) with nature but our cognitive connections too. These are the mental processes involved in understanding, appreciating, and interacting with the natural world which can shape our... See more