Book review: Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones
Rating: 4 out of 5
A well written, accessible and well referenced collection of thoughts about how nature and mental health and well being relate to each other. Some studies and ideas I’d come across before. Others were new.
A good introduction and overview to the many facets of nature.
Highlighted passages:
Three-quarters of children (aged five to twelve) in the UK now spend less time outdoors than prison inmates, who require, according to UN guidelines at least one hour of exercise in the open air every day
To plant seeds is to believe you will see them grow
In our legal system, public limited companies (PLCs) have more legal rights than the natural world. There are currently no environmental laws that protect natural areas for public health
Originally posted to my Goodreads account