Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
If we are to succeed in sustaining civilisation, the meaning we derive from our existence must arise from our connectedness; to ourselves, to other humans, and to the entire natural world.’
Joe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
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They could be devoted to expressing an idea; as Rebecca Solnit put it, ‘if war has an opposite, gardens might sometimes be it, and people have found a particular kind of peace in forests, meadows, parks, and gardens’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The urban environment skews us towards indifference and suspicion. The instincts that promote survival of the self come to the fore, and our thinking follows suit. The presence of nature, on the other hand, helps us to feel more connected to the world around us. Rather like putting on a different pair of spectacles, we see the world slightly differ
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