The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
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The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
Gardens that have vistas as well as protected spaces within them satisfy our need for prospect and refuge. Much as physical or emotional holding can be protective and open at the same time, so a garden can offer a feeling of safe enclosure without entrapment.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
Like other artistic endeavours, garden making can be a response to loss. Creating a garden can be as much a re-creation as a creation; an idea of paradise, something that connects us with a landscape we have loved and which compensates us for our separation from nature.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
As a result, physicians are starting to prescribe “nature” and “green time” to treat stress, anxiety, and depression, as we realize nature can nurture.11
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
Neuroarchitecture and Landscaping: Healing Spaces and the Potential of Sensory Gardens
Ciro Férrer Herbster Albuquerque • Neuroarchitecture and Landscaping: Healing Spaces and the Potential of Sensory Gardens
He regarded the plants in the garden as his ‘gentle guides’ because they showed him a different way of being.