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slash UK slash AI for people. Hey listeners, happy new year. For Scientific American Science

quickly, this is Rachel Feldman.

Whether you're an avid backpacker, an occasional park stroller, or someone whose relationship

with the great outdoors falls somewhere in the middle, you probably already know that

spending time in nature is a great way to de-stress. But what if leaf peeping could do more than just help you

unwind? Well, according to a recent book, the sights, sounds, and smells of plant life can have

serious impacts on our bodies. My guest today is Kathy Willis, a professor of biodiversity at the

University of Oxford, where she also serves as principal of

St. Edmund Hall. She's the author of Good Nature, why seeing, smelling, hearing, and touching

plants is good for our health. Thank you so much for joining us today.

Pleasure. Absolutely pleasure. So you're a professor of biodiversity and a lot of your work focuses on the well-being of plants and their ecosystems.

How did you become interested in how plant life impacts human health and wellness as well?

So that's right. I'm very much someone who's always worked the sort of interface between

looking at vegetation and climate change and very academic. But then I was working on a big

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