Renaturing: A How To Guide For Living a More Natural and Eudaimon Life
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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,
for better or worse."