Making Spaces of Awe and Restoration | Florence Williams | TEDxNavesink

Japan has forest bathing; Korea has healing forests. Sicence has shown that time in nature makes us healthier, happier and more creative. How can cities make spaces of awe and restoration, and how can people be inspired to spend more time in them?
Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for National Geographic, the New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones, and numerous other publications. She is currently working on a book about Nature and the Brain.
A fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington University, her work focuses on the environment, health and science. She has received many awards, including six magazine awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the John Hersey Prize at Yale.
Her first book, BREASTS: A Natural and Unnatural History (W.W. Norton 2012) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology and the 2013 Audie in general nonfiction. It was also named a notable book of 2012 by the New York Times. She serves on the board of her favorite non-profit, High Country News, and lives with her family in Washington, D.C.
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[@handgathered]

Thank you Ms. Williams. I get it, and have gotten it for years. I walk thru my forest each week. Alone. It is a need that only gets sated on my hikes. I covet and worship my time there. I'm almost 60 with back issues, but hope I can continue til the end.

[@nobakwaas5161]

The 3-Day Effect audiobook was amazing. Nature can heal us.

[@214BIgl]

As an outdoor Educator, guide, environmental scientist is see this so evident when taking people out in nature. But more so I feel it myself when I lack it too. It's very real, and people have forgotten what we lost, it's hard to know what nature is when it's sometimes hours away and is not incorporated in our city lives.
Our way of life needs to change.
Your book summed up so much of my own awareness of things with real tested science.

[@revisionandexampreparation502]

Very informative and inspiring. I had a wonderful experience after watching this and knowing the benefits of walking. Forest bathing is truly remarkable and beneficial to well being. Thanks.

[@BrawlBros14]

Hello from Rosanna's RA80 class!!

[@HamOnCan]

she mention of being out for an hour a week . . it the late 1800's they spoke of being outside for at least and hour a day .
when you stop and think about, we were created to live outside and breathe fresh air 24 7.

[@HamOnCan]

yes the helicopters and planes disturb our equilibrium, we are a body of vibrations and they all affect us.
when you move , you are literally as losing the ground beneath your feet . losing all your familiar.
in fact we replicate earth energies where we live , hence our respective languages and dialects as well as being responsible for the music reflecting the energies of the day.