She discovers that our eyes respond to fractal patterns in nature because their internal physical structure is made up of similar patterns.

The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer 'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!

I found so many fascinating tidbits throughout, like how interaction with soil or walking through a forest actually raises the immune system. Nii, nagu raamatu tagaküljel sedastatakse, tahan nüüd tõepoolest ringi korraldada nii linnaruumi, haridussüsteemi, tööl käimist kui ka oma elu. People in lower socioeconomic groups or from racial and ethnic minorities have less access to natural areas. She bases her ideas on the recent work of thinkers like Glenn Albrecht, who has coined such terms as psychoterratic and solastalgia to refer, respectively, to “earth-related mental health issues” and the nostalgia for dying natural spaces that once offered solace. Overall a nice take and a reminder that urbanization poses many problems and if we become too comfortable and don't get out of our boxes at all, this may cause serious issues for us and the future generations and above all the planet itself.

While her grandparents had bird migration patterns and plant names off by heart, Jones recognises that she knows only a fraction of what they did. Though there are lots of studies referenced that I would have liked to read in print, the details probably get a bit tedious in print (for someone not super well versed on the topic).She begins her story up a mountain in the Pyrenees with little food, a small tent, and nine bottles of water.

She reveals the dangerous consequences of our neglect of the maternal experience and interrogates the patriarchal and capitalist systems that have created the untenable situation mothers face today. Putting things right “will require unprecedented change, and time is not on our side,” Jones concludes. The American West is defined as that which lay west of the 100th parallel, an appropriate definition since that land receives less rainfall than the land to its east and requires a very different land management ethos.I also found it quite powerful when the Jones stated “Climate change will affect our mental health……It will directly expose populations at the front line to trauma, such as floods, vector-borne diseases and extreme heat, loss of homes, loss of life, loss of health and loss of ways of life and cultures” (123-124). The Amish, exposed to a diversity of microbes through their small-scale farming, have stronger immune systems and a lower incidence of mental illness. Currently, there are “…no environmental laws that protect natural areas for public health” (161), which I found astounding. Mixing poetry, prescriptive challenges, and elements of memoir, Heche (1969-2022) delivers a narrative that is more encouraging workbook than life story. This describes a vicious cycle that links apathy with ecological destruction: the extinction of common species leads to ignorance and a fraying of our connection with the natural world – which leads to lack of care for the planet.