Return To Nature (HarperCollins, Apr 2022) explores how eight distinct landscapes impact our mental and physical health: grasslands, deserts, forests, mountains, oceans, rivers, icy terrain, and cities. The book weaves together new research and ancient knowledge on how every inch of the natural world can be a salve for the stress, anxiety, and burnout of today’s age.
Over the course of this landscape-to-landscape guide, you’ll pick up fresh ideas on how to restore yourself in the nature around you—be it a sprawling forest or a row of street trees. You’ll also learn about meaningful actions we can all take to give back to the landscapes that give so much to us. Readers will finish this book with an awakened appreciation for the nature outside their front doors, and a renewed commitment to caring for it.
“Reading Return To Nature is an antidote to burnout and a gentle invitation to expansive possibilities for awe, restoration, and gratitude right outside your front door. This gorgeously illustrated, beautifully written book invites you on an immersive journey through eight landscapes, combining fascinating insights into how nature restores our minds with accessible rituals to engage all your senses to experience and enjoy nature’s healing benefits for yourself. Along the way, you’ll learn simple but profound mindset shifts to appreciate our own role in the web of life, including solid practical advice on how we can better care for nature in our everyday lives as consumers and citizens, to protect and expand its gifts.”
—Kimberly Nicholas, PhD, author of Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World
“In Return to Nature, Emma Loewe has gifted us a practical, informative guide. It left me becalmed, inspired, and hopeful.”
—Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
“By breaking down the science and putting it into practice through do-it-at-home exercises, Return To Nature provides you both the door and the key to unlock the magic that's available to you out there: all you have to do is step outside to discover it!”
—Gale Straub, author of She Explores: Stories of Life-Changing Adventures on the Road and in the Wild
“I couldn't stop thinking about this book. Do yourself a favor and go read it under a tree. Then prepare to head to your next city planning meeting to ensure more greenspace access for everyone.”
—Kathryn Kellogg, author of 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste
“Return to Nature is a perfect justification for how important advocating and protecting nature is: it enables us to be our happiest and healthiest selves. Emma’s words are the friendly nudge many of us need to get outside, see the trees, stand in the snow, swim in the sea. A fantastic reminder that not only are we a part of nature; we are healed by it.”
—Lauren Singer, founder of Package Free & The Simply Co.
