The Nature Fix

lives of the rich. In other words, there was something protective about the greenery for the most deprived ...

places that “exaggerate the dullness, the danger, the emptiness.” Her solution was to throw the baby out altogeth ...

to be molding a clay face onto an oak tree with a group of ex-felons and addicts. The science-based ...

boys, but many returned to gangs once they got back home. “I challenge anyone that age not to get b ...

“You should have seen it before,” he said. In the three years he’s worked here, he’s cleared overgro ...

An older man in a yellow windbreaker said, laconically, “Yep.” Bolton brushed past a tree dusted with s ...

without any big miscues, looking forward to next week. For programs like this, the social piece is a large ...

and managed care. To the extent that nature therapy is slowly coming back into vogue, the Swedes have proba ...

Ottosson’s work relies heavily on the mid-twentieth-century American psychologist Howard Searles. Best known ...

reasons people use city parks in Sweden. He turned up the then- surprising answer of psychological well-being. Th ...

the experience of Ottosson during his recovery. For the first weeks, the participants often spend their garde ...

data, “the cost-benefit savings is quite high,” said Grahn. “They go from seeking primary care thirty t ...

that if you live near the scenic western coasts of England, you’re nine times more likely to exercise ...

8 Rambling On When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked ...

The idea of solvitur ambulando (in walking it will be solved) has been around since St. Augustine, but we ...

Nietzsche in Twilight of the Idols. And Rousseau wrote in Confessions, “I can only meditate when I a ...

not just because he was the Romantic Age’s greatest advertisement for both Scotland and for perambulating (h ...

wanted to see if he could once again help me through some of the material. Mostly, though, he wanted to ...

Both siblings were inveterate Romantics, reacting against the march of industry and commerce into past ...

THE ABILITY TO see electrical waves inside the human brain was pioneered by German psychiatrist Hans Berger ...