The Nature Fix

energy plants and paper pulp. Finland is the most forested country in Europe, with trees covering 74 perce ...

promote fitness, planners can use that information to argue against paving places like Vartiosaari as Helsinki ...

“nature” could just be the result of more time to space out on the drive. Tyrväinen secured close to $ ...

workers are unionized. They get five-week vacations, pensions and health care, as well as one-year paid ...

natural settings. Tyrväinen wanted to drill deeper into the data, so for another study, her team took 82 ...

“The results of our experiment suggest that the large urban parks (more than 5 hectares) and large urban ...

learned brooding. From the Russians, they learned drinking. The Finns themselves are notoriously taciturn, intr ...

close connection between people and the land is evident from Korpela’s own life and work. “As a teenager, I u ...

subconscious level. As we’ve seen in Part One, nature appears to have some immediate effects: a lowe ...

northern Europe. They surveyed the hikers who use them, and found that 79 percent said their moods had im ...

restorative to people who are mentally fatigued or socially stressed. I get it. I love being alone in na ...

butt into nature as often as you possibly can. If your scores were the same or lower, you should ...

do it. ...

7 Garden of Hedon Clearings. That’s what I needed. Slowly my brain righted itself into spaces unused for mont ...

In the Gaelic poem “Hallaig,” by Sorley MacLean, a man is forced to leave his favorite grove of trees ...

sound and action of open water as it freezes”? For all that landed pride, though, Scotland is a country di ...

obesity. Now, though, he’s turned to the environment itself. Long fascinated by why some places breed healthy ...

nature and trees,” he said. The neuroscience is bomb-proof on exercise. Physical activity changes the brain t ...

cameras and recording equipment. He offered me a pole, but I declined. It was a beautiful day in June, and th ...

their way to the Glengoyne distillery that I really understood the national obsession. The hills of Scotland ...