Return To Nature

From MindBodyGreen's Senior Sustainability Editor and the co-author of The Spirit Almanac comes a definitive guide to reconnecting with the outdoors, rich with new research on how time in nature is essential to our wellbeing.

For centuries, humankind was connected to nature. Yet we've evolved to feel safer inside on our devices, in spite of the fact that most of us feel our most calm, creative, and captivated outdoors. Most of us have become disconnected from the earth we love: we spend just 12 hours outside a week and 77 hours in front of screens.

In this timely, much-needed book, Emma Loewe reminds us of what we are losing and provides a framework for reconnecting with the outdoors for the sake of our health and the planet's. Drawing on new research from environmental psychology, biology, and ecology on nature's healing benefits as well as wisdom on the unquantifiable, spiritual power of the outdoors, she provides self-care rituals to put them into practice and wisdom for protecting the earth in return.

In this beautiful book—featuring fifty four-color illustrations that transport us to landscapes both across the world and in our backyards—readers will find inspiration to return to nature for regeneration and self-healing, whether it's an afternoon in a city park or a hike through the beautiful wilderness.