Renaturing: A How To Guide For Living a More Natural and Eudaimon Life
"Today we have cities where hundreds of thousands
of people are stacked one on top of the other.
They are lucky to see the sky,
much less a green park or lakefront.
We often do not have easy access to the sorts of sights,
sounds, smells, and tastes that made our ancestors feel
that life was good, even if just for a little while.
Our brains are rebelling against this,
since we have spent 6%
of our evolutionary span being urban,
while the other 94% was deeply embedded
in nature..."
