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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Why Nature?

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Studies have found that spending time in nature creates a host of psychological and physiological benefits for humans. But why? In this episode, Robert and Joe explore several competing explanations for the restorative power of natural environments, covering everything from the shape of our ancestral environments to the internal economy of attention and focus.

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0:00.0

I'm Munga Shatekler and it turns out astrology is way more widespread than any of us want

0:06.6

to believe.

0:07.6

You can find it in major league baseball, international banks, kpop groups, even the White House.

0:12.9

But just when I thought I had a handle on this subject, something completely unbelievable

0:17.0

happened to me and my whole view on astrology changed.

0:20.6

Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, give me a few minutes because I think your ideas

0:24.5

are about to change too.

0:26.0

Listen to Skyline Drive on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your

0:30.8

podcasts.

0:35.0

We need the tonic of wilderness to wade sometimes in marshes where the bitter and in the meadow

0:40.1

hint lurk and hear the booming of the snipe.

0:43.7

To smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary foul builds are nest

0:49.7

and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

0:53.2

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all

0:57.5

things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed

1:03.8

and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

1:07.2

We can never have enough of nature.

1:09.3

We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, the vast and titanic features, the sea

1:15.1

coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder

1:20.6

cloud and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets.

1:25.4

We need to witness our own limits transgressed and some life pasturing freely where we never

1:31.3

wander.

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