“Our ability to understand and study the human mind has expanded in recent years and with it follows a stream of new ideas about happiness, empathy, love, gratitude, creativity and our relationship with nature. This isn’t rainbows and unicorns stuff, we’re talking science: prefrontal cortex, amygdala, neuroimaging and neuron function with real world implications for education, public policy, health care and business.
To put it simply, it’s entirely possible that after tens of thousands of years of human evolution, our abrupt separation from wild nature is making us kind of crazy. Richard Louv calls it “Nature Deficit Disorder” and his book Last Child in the Woods may change how you think about your future and your children’s future.”
Flipping the Switch: See the Wild, Find Yourself via Wallace J. Nichols – Huffington Post