the psychological benefits of being in nature are most pronounced among those who struggle with depression. It is also a reminder that making time for physical activity is not self-indulgent. For many, it is an act of self-care, even self-preservation. In his memoir Dip, photographer Andrew Fusek Peters—whose father died by suicide—explains how swimming in the rivers, lakes, and waterfalls of Shropshire and Wales interrupted the usual “thought-torture” that defined his own severe depression: “Diving into wild water is the great bringer-back of reality. A perfect present tense, a right-here,
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