Losing Eden by Lucy Jones Summary
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"Losing Eden" explores our essential mental connection to nature through science and personal recovery. Lucy Jones's acclaimed work reveals how hospital patients with natural views heal faster, while addressing the alarming inequality of green space access. What happens when our minds can no longer find the wild?
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The Silent Epidemic We're Ignoring
What if the antidepressant we need most can't be bottled? While we're busy engineering happiness through apps and pills, mounting evidence suggests we've overlooked something fundamental: our disconnection from the natural world isn't just an environmental crisis-it's a mental health emergency. Consider this startling fact: three-quarters of UK children now spend less time outdoors than prison inmates. Meanwhile, depression rates have skyrocketed in lockstep with our retreat indoors. This isn't coincidence. When we sealed ourselves in climate-controlled boxes and paved over our playgrounds, we severed an ancient lifeline our bodies still desperately need. The science is clear and surprising. Patients recovering from surgery heal faster when they can see trees from their windows. Urban neighborhoods with more greenery report fewer antidepressant prescriptions. Forest walks boost immune function for up to a month afterward. Yet we continue building cities as if nature were optional-a luxury for weekend warriors rather than essential infrastructure for human wellbeing. The question isn't whether we need nature. It's whether we'll recognize this truth before the cost becomes irreversible.
The Dirt Beneath Our Feet Holds Ancient Medicine
Why Your Brain Craves Trees
Childhood Lost in Concrete
How Wonder Rewires Your Brain
Gardens as Therapy, Nature as Justice
Reclaiming Our Birthright Before It Vanishes
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