196 “inverse P.T.S.D.”: Cited in Michael Pollan, “The Trip Treatment,” New Yorker, Feb.
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196 The Piff and Keltner study: Paul K. Piff et al., “Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial
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197 The cytokine study is Jennifer E. Stellar et al., “Positive Affect and Markers of
Inflammation: Discrete Positive Emotions Predict Lower Levels of Inflammatory
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198 For more about Darwin on compassion and the emotion of awe generally, I
recommend Keltner’s How to Be Good. A more academic summary can be found in
Michelle N. Shiota, Dacher Keltner, and Amanda Mossman, “The Nature of Awe:
Elicitors, Appraisals, and Effects on Self-Concept,” Cognition and Emotion, vol. 21,
no. 5 (2007): pp. 944–63.
200 Nearly half of all Americans: J. Carroll, “Time Pressures, Stress Common for
Americans” a Gallup-Time Poll from 2008, cited in Rudd, 2012.
200 For more on awe and time perception, see Melanie Rudd et al., “Awe Expands
People’s Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well- Being,”
Psychological Science vol. 23, no. 10 (2012). For more on awe and generosity, see
Netta Weinstein et al., “Can Nature Make Us More Caring? Effects of Immersion in
Nature on Intrinsic Aspirations and Generosity,” Personality and Social Psychology
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(New York: Dutton, 2009), p. 101.
203 “Between every two”: From Muir’s marginalia in his copy of Prose Works by Ralph
Waldo Emerson, vol. 1 (this volume resides in the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library of Yale University). Cited in “Quotations from John Muir,”
selected by Harold Wood,
http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/favorite_quotations.aspx,
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203 “I Sliped & bruised my leg very much”: Lewis and Clark account from lewis-
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207 Surgeons in World War I: For a look at the role of plastic surgery in World War I, see
Sheryl Ubelacker, “Unprecedented Injuries from First World War Spawned Medical
Advances Still Used Today,” Canadian Press (via Postmedia’s World War 1
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June 2015. For an overview of the effects of mustard gas, see “Facts About Sulfur
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