![]() ![]() ![]() In study after study, those who choose to spend time in nature speak about its ability to make us feel more connected to something outside of ourselves-something bigger, more transcendent, and universal. “We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her,” Goethe wrote, and Huxley concludes, “It may be, that long after the theories of the philosophers whose achievements are recorded in these pages, are obsolete, the vision of the poet will remain as a truthful and efficient symbol of the wonder and the mystery of Nature.” ![]() Huxley was asked to write the opening article for the very first edition of Nature, in 1869, he declared there could be “no more fitting preface” than a “rhapsody” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. We need the sun, the moon, the stars, the rivers and the mountains and birds, the fish in the sea, to evoke a world of mystery, to evoke the sacred. Photograph by Dion Ogust Engagement with nature, and specifically, physical connection to water, yields profound cognitive, emotional, psychological and social benefits ![]()
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