Losing Eden
- Author Lucy Jones
- Narrator Lucy Jones
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 6 hours and 58 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Applied ecology, Conservation of the environment, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Nature therapy, Popular psychology.
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A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves?
Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth.
Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.
'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
'By the time I'd read the first chapter, I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the sixth, I was wanting to break prisoners out of cells and onto the mossy moors. Losing Eden rigorously and convincingly tells of the value of the natural universe to our human hearts' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun
© Lucy Jones 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Earnest, painstakingly-researched…A heartfelt love-letter to the outdoors
Daily Mail -
The benefits of experiencing nature may be far greater than is commonly appreciated … A fascinating exploration of the new science of our connection to the natural world … written in such lush, vivid prose that reading it, one can feel transported and restored.
New Statesman -
Beautiful…science is proving just how deeply the cycles and rhythms of the natural world have been knitted into our every cell
Daily Mail -
Urgent, accessible, moving … A beautifully written, research-heavy study about how nature offers us wellbeing
Observer -
Losing Eden provides the evidence of how nature makes us calmer, healthier, happier, even kinder. Jones moves between close biological evidence — how our parasympathetic nervous system is triggered when we’re in nature, how bacteria found in soil increases stress resilience — to large-scale environmental studies. The book is shot through with personal experience […but is] not really a memoir; it’s about all of us.
TLS -
Wonderful … This is an important book
Telegraph Book of the Year
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