THE SCIENCE BEHIND US
Your Brain on Nature
According to a 2011 pilot study, backpackers and Campers scored 50 percent better on a creativity test after spending four days in nature disconnected from electronic devices.
U-M psychology researchers found memory performance and attention spans improved by 20 percent after people spent an hour interacting with nature.
“One of the underappreciated benefits of venturing into remote landscapes is that we are often thrown into connecting with each other.”
FLORENCE WILLIAMS,
THE NATURE FIX
“Lost with the advance of civilization was our long-standing ability to enter into nature-induced non-ordinary states of consciousness for the purpose of healing, revelation, and connectedness with the natural world.”
CHELLIS GLENDINNING,
I'M IN RECOVERY FROM WESTERN CIVILIZATION
