Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Delving into brand-new research, Williams uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas and the answers they yield are more urgent than ever.

• Print Length: 302 pages
• "An investigation into the restorative benefits of nature draws on cutting-edge research and the authors explorations with international nature therapy programs to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood, and creativity."  -Publisher.
• "Florence Williams, keen observer, deft writer, creates a fascinating mosaic here. What are the costs to us of humanity's increasing disconnection from nature? What are the likely benefits?"  -David Quammen, New York Times best-selling author of The Tangled Tree
• Williams's findings are eminently reassuring." -Atlantic
• "A veteran journalist, Williams flexes her conditioned reporting muscles.... Her fast-paced book takes readers across three continents as she trails all kinds of experts, from phycologists to foresters."  -Earth Island Journal
• "I am no tree hugger, but Nature Fix made me want to run outside and embrace the nearest oak. Not for the trees sake but mine. Florence Williams makes a compelling, and elegant, case that nature is not only beautiful but also good for us. If Thoreau were steeped in modern neuroscience and possessed an endearingly self-deprecating sense of humor, the result would be the book you hold in your hands."  -Eric Weiner, New York Times best-selling author of The Geography of Genius.