The Nature Fix

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To my father, John Skelton Williams, for showing me the natural world in the first place. You always made it m ...

CONTENTS Introduction: The Cordial Air PART ONE LOOKING FOR NATURE NEURONS The Biophilia Effect How Many ...

Rambling On PART FOUR BACKCOUNTRY BRAIN Get Over Yourself: Wilderness, Creativity and t ...

THE Nature Fix ...

INTRODUCTION The Cordial Air May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazi ...

I was hiking in Arches National Park when the Mappiness app in my phone pinged me. Some people would be ...

poked through a crack. A few perfect white clouds pottered across a French blue sky. Let Big Brother, to ...

crowd, which tends to be young, employed and educated). It’s where you are. As one of MacKerron’s papers co ...

Before they left, she asked them to predict how happy they thought they’d feel on their walks. Afterwar ...

philosopher John Muir put it in 1901. Walt Whitman warned of the city’s “pestiferous little gratifications” ...

Prospect and Refuge. Experts tell us these habitat preferences are remarkably consistent across cultures and eras ...

the relationship between nature and the human brain. For me, the exploration started when my husband accepted a ...

tonic. Nearly every day I was in them or on them or looking at them, often alone. Unlike a lot of people ...

hurricanes, heat-index advisories.) I yearned for the mountains. And yearning is a devastating thing, because it is ...

didn’t really know, though, was why nature seemed to be helpful in alleviating so many things that ail us. And t ...

I’ve divided the book into five parts to help make sense of the material, and to make it useful. ...

year in the United States, cities grew at a faster clip than suburban regions for the first time in a ...

inner-tubes and pallets, twisted out of their clothes, and pushed off the bank of the Green, heading to the conf ...