The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

by Florence Williams

When love, laughter and music weren’t around, there was always a sunset.

More recent research shows that the steady stress of urban living changes the brain in ways that can increase our odds of schizophrenia, anxiety and mood disorders.

“Is the explosion of attractive technologies that give our brains social interactions negatively impacting us, and is the cure to go back to an environment that our brain resonates with?”

There’s something real to the phrase “you can’t hear yourself think.”

Noise, at least for me, really is a problem. The test showed that it’s simply harder for someone who is noise-sensitive to fully unwind in an urban environment, regardless of its nice parks and nesting ducks.

Humans share more genes governing speech with songbirds than we do with other primates.

There’s a better solution: go outside.

solvitur ambulando (in walking it will be solved)

“Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature,” Rousseau wrote to Fröbel’s delight; “but everything degenerates in the hands of man.”