Caroline Arnold, Director of Bore Place, gave a TEDx talk – “Get back to Nature for Good Mental Health” – that you can watch in this 15 minute video:
The key idea that she wants to get across is her gut feeling that our disconnection with nature is resulting in us being ‘fish out of water’, no longer living in our natural habitat as human beings are meant to. She argues that this has resulted in an increase in the stresses and strains of daily life, all of which has had a knock on effect on our mental health. She believes that we need to reconnect with the natural world in order to reconnect with ourselves and others.
Great talk!