Tag: <span>green space</span>

Accessible Green Spaces: How a Park Could Change Your Life

  It’s a beautiful spring day. The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining and you want to go for a stroll around a park or picnic on the grass, maybe with your dog, or your kids, or your grandmother. Are you close to a park with picnic tables and …

NYC Green Spaces: A Health Necessity Few Can Enjoy

“Green spaces are not an amenity, they are a necessity.” The biophilia hypothesis, first advanced by Edward Wilson in 1984, states that human beings have a genetic tendency to seek out nature; therefore, we feel less like ourselves without it. Research bears this out: simply spending time in nature is beneficial …

Nature Prescribed: Let Nature Help You Feel Better

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. – Paracelsus Paracelsus, a 16th century Swiss physician, incorporated minerals, plants and earth metals into medicinal treatments for patients. His homeopathic practices led to the union of medicine, …