A friend of mine (hi Jay) just tipped me off to the concept of
shinrin-yoku. This is the idea that walking through forest air
can be healing. Apparently, this came up recently because some scientists
discovered a small stand of ancient forest in Maryland, and noticed it had
an amazing smell. A quote from the New
Scientist article (taken from a blog that quotes the article):
“What could be in forest air that makes us feel better? Researchers
working in the Sierra Nevada of California found 120 chemical compounds in
the mountain forest air, but they could identify only 70 of them! We are
literally breathing things we don’t understand…”
posted at 22:19 on Thu, 08 Sep, 2005 |
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