Editorial Reviews
(Community Greening Review, 1997:Prof. Mark Francis)
..this marvelous and pathmaking book tells us exactly why "green nature" - plants, flowers, gardens, parks, landscape vegetation - is an essential part of our lives. Green Nature/Human Nature is not only an excellent synthesis of both qualitative and quantitative research that documents the bond between people and plants, it is a synthesis of the life's work and thinking of of one of the most important figures in people-plant relationships. Charles Lewis virtually founded the field of green psychology and, along with colleagues Rachel Kaplan, Roger Ulrich, Diane Relf and others has made it a legitimate for of science and design. As a result of three decades of their work, we now have an empirical and firm theoretical basis that nature is as important to human experience as food, rest and learning...This is an accessible and readable volume that will warm the hearts and inform the minds of all gardeners. I suggest you take a copy into the garden, read a few pages, ! look around, and join Lewis in his insightful and enjoyable tour of the significance of what you see. (Community Greening Review, 1997 (Prof. Mark Francis))
(Landscape Journal, Vol 16, No 1, Spring 1997)
..focuses upon the impact and influence of vegetation..on human health and well-being. Compiling over thirty years of research conducted by researchers and practitioners in the fields of environmental psychology, horticultural therapy, landscape architecture and cross-disciplinary areas of research such as environmental behavior, Lewis weaves together the work of Stephen and Rachel Kaplan, Roger Ulrich, Mark Francis and others, with anecdotes from the author's thirty plus years in the field. These anecdotes, many of which relate the reactions or experiences of urban gardeners, children, senior citizens, and prisoners in a county jail, serve as persuasive evidence regarding the impacts of plants on human well-being.(Landscape Journal, Vol 16, No 1, Spring 1997 (Stanton I. Jones))
Green Nature/Human Nature: The Meaning of Plants in Our Lives (The Environment and the Human Condition)
Green Nature/Human Nature: The Meaning of Plants in Our Lives (The Environment and the Human Condition),Charles A. Lewis,University of Illinois Press,0252065107,Gardening / Horticulture,General,Human Geography,Human-plant relationships,Nature/Ecology,Applied ecology,Sociology, Social Studies
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