In my view the simplest explanation for our intense connection with nature, our biophilia, remains the most plausible: we hanker for the sight of green and blue, for the Earth of our ancestors, the sea of our origins, and the feeling on our faces of the sunlight that first nurtured life. We sense this instinctively, it’s in our wiring; which makes it even more confounding when we choose to ignore it, and allow vast tracts of wilderness to vanish or burn, noise to creep across once silent hills, plastics to choke oceans, and years to pass without pausing to lie under trees as we did when we
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