The view from our home is all nature all the time
I would die if I didn't have my daily dose of nature. Exaggeration? Or are the benefits of nature more important than we realize?
A growing line of research is revealing "the entanglement of our health with the health of nature", as Lindsay Abram writes in When Trees Die, People Die.
It shouldn't surprise us that nature is a requirement for overall planetary health, including our own. After all, as Henry David Thoreau's pointed out, we are all partly leaves and vegetable mold ourselves.
We need healthy, fully functional nature to have healthy, fully functional humans.
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February 16, 2013
Healthy Nature - Healthy Humans
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Wow! What a beautiful dose of scenery! This is indeed fact as there is a chapter about the healing power of nature in my book. Many studies, done all over the world (USA, Japan,Sweden) confirm this. Interesting too is that when there lacks nature, humans conform to the behavior of animals when they are kept in cages and artificial stone habitats by violating their habitat or home with graffiti and trash. The lack of nature actually leads to unhealthy minds.
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised to hear about the caged animal thing. Nature deprivation is a nasty thing that probably explains a lot of the violence and unhappiness that plagues our society.
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