The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
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The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money, status, ownership), but the things that actually matter (sustenance, perspective, beauty, connection, growth).
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.
— Robert Harrison: Gardens: An Es
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They could be devoted to expressing an idea; as Rebecca Solnit put it, ‘if war has an opposite, gardens might sometimes be it, and people have found a particular kind of peace in forests, meadows, parks, and gardens’.