The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393355578 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Florence Williams is a journalist and contributing editor to Outside magazine. Her first book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2012 and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. . Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic among others. Williams lives in Washington, DC
Not for the tree’s sake but mine. Williams resists the tendency of so much nature writing towards easy epiphanies, adopting a tone that is, instead, pleasingly puckishShe puzzles out the pros and cons, concluding, on balance, that there’s a good case for connecting with nature to extend both the quantity and quality of life .” - Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal“The Nature Fix offers a cross-continental rumination on nature’s feel-good effects in a world that’s increasingly concrete-centric.” - Portland Monthly“Williams’s findings are eminently reassuring, and perversely specific.” -
"Good research. Writing style not to my taste" according to William E. Franklin. Good research and interesting research Writing style not to my taste, writer tries to hard to be witty, cute. It distracts from good content. Reaffirming Fred I am aware of the implications of nature on the soul body and mind. The Nature Fix reaffirms my own understanding of what nature does in a collection of research, studies, and experiences. I'll admit that someof the statistics drew out and made parts of the chapters a little flat however they still made their contributions to the findings. I recommend this book to . A Eye Opening book whose lessons can improve your life! Doug in Maine I was very impressed by all the study and hands-on experience this author pursued as research for this book. The lessons it offers are important for each of us from very young to very old.
As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideasand the answers they yieldare more urgent than ever. She travels to fragrant cypress forests in Korea to meet the rangers who administer “forest healing programs,” to the green hills of Scotland and its “ecotherapeutic” approach to caring for the mentally ill, to a river trip in Idaho with Iraqi vets suffering from PTSD, to the West Virginia mountains where she discovers how being outside helps children with ADHD to show how time in nature is not a luxury but is in fact essential to our humanity. “Breezy enough to draw in the lay reader, thorough enough to satisfy the expert.”New York Times Book ReviewFor centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; and Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park.Intrigued by our storied