Why Is Adding Nature to Our Indoor Environments Important?

For tens of thousands of years, human beings lived deeply connected to the Natural World- its spaces, its cycles, and its species. We are a part of Nature and have evolved in profound connection with other beings and elements of Nature. And yet today, 95% of our time is spent indoors, shut off from Nature's rhythms and energies.

"If human history for the last 40,000 years were represented by just one hour, then the amount of time that we have been living in such extreme isolation from Nature would be represented by only a few seconds." - Denise Linn, Feng Shui for the Soul

Our temperature-controlled and plastic-filled modern environments separate us from the earth in a way that is new for our species, a way that we have not yet evolved to navigate successfully. Ecopsychology studies how our psychological health is connected to our relationship with the natural environment.  Genetically programmed to interact with Nature, our basic, very real need to be connected with Nature now goes unfulfilled.  We're suffering from Nature Deprivation.