![]() ![]() Hortophilia, the desire to interact with, manage, and tend nature, is also deeply instilled in us. Biophilia, the love of nature and living things, is an essential part of the human condition. ![]() In many cases, gardens and nature are more powerful than any medication.Ĭlearly, nature calls to something very deep in us. I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains, but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically. In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical “therapy” to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens. The importance of these physiological states on individual and community health is fundamental and wide-ranging. All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in mind, refreshed in body and spirit. In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.Īs a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. ![]()
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