“I can get to a happy place by visiting nature”: The benefits of implementing nature walking groups within mental health services

Doses of Neighborhood Nature: The Benefits for Mental Health of Living with Nature

Experiences of nature provide many mental-health benefits, particularly for people living in urban areas. The natural characteristics of city residents’ neighborhoods are likely to be crucial determinants of the daily nature dose that they receive; however, which characteristics are important remains unclear. One possibility is that the greatest benefits are provided by characteristics that are...

Contact to Nature Benefits Health: Mixed Effectiveness of Different Mechanisms

How can urban nature contribute to the reduction of chronic stress? We twice measured the concentration of the "stress hormone" cortisol in the hair of 85 volunteer gardeners (six months apart), relating cortisol level change to (self-reported) characteristics of their recreational activities. Both time spent in nature and physical activity led to decreases in cortisol, while time spent being i...

Our Place in Nature

One of the deepest assumptions of Judaism and its offspring, Christianity, is that there is an important difference between human persons and everything else that exists in Creation. We alone are made in God’s image. We alone are the stewards of the earth. It is said in Genesis that we have “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the ...

The Nature of Mental Deficiency.

Coincidence of Material and Mental Elements: Nature and Approache

According to accepted principles of criminal law, whether in written Civil Law system or common law System, the mere existence of material and mental elements of a crime is not suffice, but their coincidence is also required. Only when they coincide in time, it may be said that the crime has occurred and criminal responsibility is completed. Many discussions have been put-forward in legal writi...