![]() She begins by telling us how much we’ve travelled inwards as human beings, both literally and psychologically, nowadays spending only 1 to 5% of our time outdoors (she adds later that three-quarters of children in the UK, aged five to 12, now spend less time outside than prisoners). Jones’s book is a beautifully written, research-heavy study about how nature offers us wellbeing. (If they tried that today, the police would send them home.) These books, each in their own distinct way, take that idea and twist it. Nature writing in recent years has often been about landscapes granting peace, even if that peace has mostly been limited to white men walking up mountains and having epiphanies. ![]()
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