“The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.”

The natural world helps us perceive connections and fine-tune knowledge (sharpness and awareness).

Muir: “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home.”

Soothing nature relieves the fight-or-flight stress reactions.”

Solastalgia: pain of knowing that place where one resides and loves is under immediate assault.

Living without trees or nature causes higher aggression, less civility, more crime, litter, etc.

Ecotherapy incorporates nature into psychotherapy.

Biophilia: the human organism needs direct interaction with nature.

Eutierria: spontaneous feeling of oneness with the earth and its life-forces.

Transition town adopt a permaculture to mimic sustainable ecologies and jumpstart the independence from oil and imports.

Work-campers and citizen-naturalists a growing force.

Nature principle fundamental: not only conserve but create nature by creating native habitats in gardens urban and suburban.

“The worth of any nature-related gadget should be related to how long it takes to put down that gadget.”

“Relationship to place is as important as the place itself.”

Environmentalism’s motto: to conserve and create.