INDEX

Abbey, Edward, 235, 237

About Looking (Berger), 166

Ackerman, Diane, 11

ACRES Land Trust, 212

Active Kids Club, 150

Adderall, 27

Adirondacks Park, 123-125, 182-183

adrenaline, 54

Adult Summer Camp, 182-183

Ady, Janet, 82

African Americans, 48, 138-139

Age, The, 210

Age of Anxiety, 62

aging, 78-88, 94-95, 189, 246-247

air pollution, 178, 206

Airbus, 182

Albrecht, Glenn, 63, 64, 76, 84

Alexander, Christopher, vii

alienating work environments, 183-187

aliveness, 95

Almeras, Bethe, 150-151

Alzheimer’s disease, 61, 80, 82

amateurs, 131-135

American Academy of Pediatrics, 85, 175

American Cancer Society, 178

American Dreamscape (Martinson), 231

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47

American Psychiatric Association, 62

American Psychological Association, 16, 65

AmeriCorps, 229-230

Amigos de los Rios, 214

amphetamines, 27

ancestors, 38, 54-55, 178, 255-256

animal assisted therapy (AAT), 49, 60-61

Animas River, 280

anterior cingulate cortex, 15-16

Anthropological Survey of India, 15

anthropomorphism, 166

antioxidants, 81

Anza-Borrego Desert, 103, 132

Appalachian Harvest, 276

Appalachian Sustainable Development (ASD), 276

Apte, Prakash M., 201

Aqua-Hab Aquatic Systems, 278-281

art, 231-235

artificial light, 177-181

artificial neural networks, 27

Asian tsunami of 2004, 15

aspect-blindness, 102

aspect-seeing, 102

Astrove, Robby, 49-51

Atlanta, 207, 220-221

attachment theory, 144-148

attention-deficit disorder, 29

Audubon magazine, 13 4

Audubon Society, 14, 21, 116, 117, 149-150

Austin, Texas, 191, 214

automobiles, 215, 225-231

Avatar, 4

Aveda, 186

avoidance, 104

Axelson, Peter, 188-189

baby boomers, 94-95, 223, 229

Backpacker magazine, 99

Backyard Poultry magazine, 204

backyard revolution, 164-173

Baja California, 102-103, 130-131, 243

Bank of America, 184

Barton, Jo, 59-60

bats, 14, 214, 270

Battery Park City, 209

Bauerlein, Mark, 38

Bau haus movement, 234

Bay Area Ant Survey, 133

BBC, 133

Bear Valley, California, 147

Beatley, Timothy, 200

beavers, 214, 216

behavioral ecology, 53-54

“being where you are,” 100-109

BeltLine, 207

Benyus, Janine, 189-190

Berg, Peter, 122

Berger, John, 117, 166

Berger, Wolf, 25-26, 241

Berman, Marc, 29

Berry, Thomas, 244-247, 257, 268, 278

Berry, Wendell, vii, 120, 274

Beston, Henry, 23-24

bicycles, 228, 230

biodiversity, 101, 103, 106, 111, 130, 132

in backyards, 164-173

in cities, 114-117

biomimicry, 189-190

Biomimicry (Benyus), 189

biophilia, 53-54, 71, 187, 267

biophilic design, 5, 100, 112, 161, 184, 244, 257

biophony, 175

bioregions, 122-125

economic value of, 125-130

Bird, William, 54, 80-81, 87

Birding by Ear, 14

birds, 14-15, 21, 73, 132, 190, 287-288

backyard, 165-166, 170-173

urban, 193-194, 198, 213-215

birdsongs, 14-15, 175

Boise River Greenbelt, 164

“bonding, the,” 140-153

Booker Prize, 35

botanical gardens, 199

botanical sense of place, 105-109

Botanical Society of America, 105

Botany of Desire, The (Pollan), 108

Boulder, Colorado, 99

Boulet, Mark, 183

Bowling Alone (Putnam), 110-111

Bowman, Conway, 74-75

Bowman, Wendy, 63

Boyce, Walter, 216

BP oil spill, 62

brain development, 52

brain gap, 37-38

breast-cancer survivors, 73-74

Briggs Carriage Bookstore, 97

Bringing Nature Home (Tallamy), 169

Brinkley, Douglas, 252

Bristol University, 60

British Home Office, 236

British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, 72

Bronx River, 214

Brooklyn Bridge Park, 209

Brooks, Elaine, 55, 117-119

Brother Yusuf, 67

Brown, Joshua W., 16

Building Bridges to the Outdoors, 136

Building for Life (Kellert), 221-222

Burch, Wileta, 147

Burden, Dan, 228-231

Burden, Lys, 230

burial, 235-237

Burkman, Marnie, 66-67

Burnett, Sgt. Maj. Todd, 17

Bush, George H. W., 26

business-nature partnership, 192-196

business retreats, 182-183

butterflies, 143, 170-172

button parks, 212-213, 261

Buzzell-Saltzman, Linda, 64-65

Cabrillo, Juan, 106

Caerphilly County Borough, UK, 127

Calabrese, Kelli, 71-72

California Academy of Sciences, 133, 185

California Native Plant Society, 103

Callenbach, Ernest, 122

Calonge, Ned, 94-95

Cameron, James, 4

Camp David, 182

Campbell, Billy, 235-237

camphor tree of La Jolla, 117-119

cancer, 73-74, 178, 206

care farming, 86-87

career guide, 281-285

caring for the land, 113

Carnegie Mellon University, 184

Carolina Thread Trail, 211-212

Carson, Rachel, 146, 253, 256

Carson National Forest, 250

Cascade Land Conservancy, 214

Casey, Susan, 9

Casting for Recovery, 73-74

Catawba Lands Conservancy, 211, 212

catecholamines, 54

Catholicism, 245

CBS, 99

Celebrate Urban Birds, 193

cemeteries, 235-237

Cenozoic era, 257-258

Center for Education, Imagination, and the Natural World, 244-245

Center for Whole Communities, 253

Center on Everyday Lives of Families, 23

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 85-86, 215

Chadstone shopping center, 210

Chadwick, Alan, 173

chaparral, 107, 108-109, 207-209

Chattahoochee Hill Country, 220-221

Chautauqua Festival, 35-36, 68-69

Chawla, Louise, 34, 146

Chiba University, 51, 86

Chicago Wilderness, 214

chickens, 204-205

Children and Nature Network, 137, 144

Children, Youth, and Family Consortium, 144

China, 114-115

chlorophyll, 108

Chrispeels, Arno, 282-285

citizen naturalists, 130, 131-135

civil rights, 267-269

civilization, 113-114

Clabburn, Anna, 183

Cleveland EcoVillage, 201

Cloud Appreciation Society, 180-181

Cloudspotter’s Guide, The (Pretor-Pinney), 180-181

coal mining, 270-273

Cobb, Edith, 34

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 95

Colorado Department of Veterans Affairs, 66

Colorado Health Foundation, 211

Columbia University, 128, 201

Commerzbank Tower, 185

community, 189

community-based conservation, 253-254

Community Food Security Coalition, 205

Comstock, Anna Botsford, 252

Comstock, John Henry, 252

Condor Recovery Team, 131

connecting people to nature, 258-264

conservation theories, 116, 251-253

Conservationists Formerly Known as Environmentalists, 253

continuous partial attention, 22-24

Cornell Plantations, 199

Cornell University, 133, 193, 199, 252

Costa Rica, 100-101, 128

Cox, Mike, 93

Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature (Young et al.), 31-32

creative genius, 33-36

culture, 54, 114, 234, 263, 274

cummings, e. e., 1

Cuyamaca Mountains, 140-144

Dana Meadows Organic Children’s Garden, 157-159, 204

Daniel, Terry, 179

Dark Sky Initiative, 178

darkness, 177-181

Darwin, Charles, 245-246

Dasmann, Raymond, 122

DDT, 213, 214

death, 274

Deakin University, 34-35, 48, 56, 113, 210

De-Central Park, 209, 211

deep green exercise, 72-77

deep green high, 70-77

deer, 214-215

dehumanized life, 23-24

Delightful Places Survey, 96

Denver Trust for Public Land, 211

depression, 58-62

Desert Solitaire (Abbey), 235

despair, 283-284

Despommier, Dickson, 201-202

Detroit, 202-204

Detroit River, 214

“Devil’s Teeth, The,” 20

DeYoung, Raymond, 28

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 62

Dick, Steven, 4

Dickinson, Janis, 193-194

Dillane, James, 106-107

directed-attention fatigue, 27-29

dirt, 60, 65

disabilities, 83, 188-189

Distracted (Jackson), 22-23

dolphins, 61, 242

Donahue, Ashley, 148-150

Donahue, Chip, 148-150

Donally, Bob, 92

Donally, Irene, 92

Dorn, Jonathan, 99

Dorsey High School, 135-136

Dream of the Earth, The (Berry), 245

drugs, 75-77

Dumbest Generation, The (Bauerlein), 38

Dunlap, Scott, 75

Durango, Colorado, 99

Durley, Gerald L., 267

Early Show, The, 99

Earth in Mind (Orr), 89

East Bay Regional Park District, 214

Eaton, Michael, 145-146

echolocation, 13-14

EcoAmerica, 284

ecocities, 225-226

Ecocities (Register), 226

ecological unconscious, 62-64

economics, 125-130

ecotherapy, 64-69

“Ecotopia,” 122

ecovillages, 200-201, 229, 232

Ecozoic era, 257-258

ecstatic places, 34

edible city, 201-208

education, 252, 262, 277-278, 281-285

Einstein, Albert, 33, 126

Eisenhour, David, 35-36, 68

Ellyson Field, 230

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 7, 33, 62, 125, 256

Emory University, 38, 50

energy, 80

English countryside, 224

English Gardener, 46

Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage, 201, 218

entrepreneurship, 192-196

Environmental Performance Index, 128

Environmental Science and Technology, 60

environmentalism, 252-253

revitalization of, 256-264, 275

Episode Zero Robot (EPORO), 190

Erickson, Martha Farrell, 144-145, 147

Erskine, Hildred, 10

Eternal Reefs, 237

eternity with a view, 235-237

ethics, 250, 268, 274-275

eutierria, 76

Everglades, 49-50, 165

everyday eden, 155-237

little suburb on the prairie, 220-237

nature neurons, 182-196

Nature Principle, 157-173, 182-196

restorative cities, 197-219

stop, look up, and listen, 174-181

evolution, 37, 38, 54, 108, 112, 179, 242

exercise, 57-62, 67, 71-72, 74, 76, 81-83, 85, 87, 127, 228, 257-258

Exploring a Sense of Place (ESP), 104-105, 157, 261

Exploring a Sense of Place (Harwell), 104

extinction, 258

extinction of experience, 18

Extranet, 217-218

extrasensory perception, 15-18

extreme outdoor sports, 72-77

Family Adventures in Nature (FAN), 151

family farms and ranches, 273-278

family nature clubs, 148-151, 260-264

family relationships, 142-153

farm animals, 61 Farmer, Paul, 65

fascination, 28

Feminine, Firm & Fit (Calabrese), 71-72

feng shui, 160

fight-or-flight reflex, 54, 55, 76

firestorms, 106-107, 109, 132

Fish, Allen, 56

Fish, Howard, 123-125

fitness, 70-77

Flaccavento, Anthony, 276-277

fly-fishing, 73-75

food security, 205

food webs, 169-171

Forbes, Peter, 253

Fordham University, 245

forest medicine, 51

forest schools, 24

Forest Therapy Executive Committee, 86-87

“forever wild,” 124

forgiveness, 243, 244

Fort Wayne, Indiana, 197-198

fountains of life, 46-55

Frank, Billy, 123

free radicals, 80-81

Fremontia, 103

Freud, Sigmund, 68

Friends Hospital, 65

front porches, 222, 225

Frumkin, Howard, 84, 258

full connection, 32

Fuller, Buckminster, 130

Fuller, Richard, 111

fully alive, 6, 122

fungi, 108-109

Furse, Elizabeth, 123

gadgets, 192-195

Gaia Hypothesis, 244

Galapagos Islands, 24-25

Garden Cities movement, 199

gardening, 29-30, 43-46, 80, 82, 127, 146

biodiversity and, 164-173

restorative buildings and, 186-187

school, 208

urban, 201-208, 218-219

gas mileage, 226-227

generations of environmental arguments, 284

genetic predeterminism, 53-54

gentleman ranchers, 279

ghosts of nature past, 51-55

giftedness, 243-248

Glave, Dianne D., 138-139

global blaring, 174-177

global warming, 63, 64, 278, 283-284

God, 243-246

Gödel, Kurt, 33

Golden Acorn Casino, 179

Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 86

Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, 56

“good stuff,” 269

Goodnight Moon (Brown), 198

Google, 186, 198

Gottfried, Jay, 12

Grand Teton National Park, 136

Grange hamlet, 222

great blue herons, 287-288

Great Work, The (Berry), 246, 268, 278-281

Green Building Certification Institute, 261

green burials, 235-237

Green Collar Economy, The (Jones), 269

Green Corps, 203

Green Exercise and Green Care, 58-59, 87

Green for All, 269

Green Gyms, 72

Green Hour, 146

Green Nature/Human Nature (Lewis), 108

green roofs, 192, 200, 202, 209-210

Green Urbanism (Beatley), 200

greenfield development, 224-225

greenification, 217-219

Greening of Detroit, 203-204

greening school grounds, 29-30

Greer, Jack, 178

Guatemala, 76-77

Haas, Ellen, 31-32

habitat loss, 166-173

Hager, Mike, 130-131

Hammarby Sjöstad, 200

Handbook of Nature Study (Comstock), 252

“Happiest People, The,” 128

Happy Planet Index (HPI), 127-128

Harper’s Magazine, 202

Harrington, Richard C., 35

Hartig, John, 214

Hartig, Terry, 29, 51-52

Harvard University, 94, 110

Harwell, Karen, 104-105, 157-159, 164, 172-174, 204

Hasbach, Patricia Hansen, 67-69

Haub, Mark, 80

Hawken, Paul, 186, 272-273

hazards in war zones, 16-17

healing, 113

health, 70-77, 253-254

“Healthy Parks, Healthy People,” 34-35

Healy, Rita, 95

hearing, sense of, 14-15

Heerwagen, Judith, 54, 163, 184

Heid, Jim, 224-225

hemoglobin, 108

Herman Miller, 185

Herron, Nancy, 57, 187, 195

Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua, 72

Hidden Villa, 39-40

High Country News, 277

high-def windows, 162-163

high-performance human, 5, 239-285

career guide to everyday Edens, 270-285

new nature movement, 249-264

right to a walk in the woods, 265-269

vitamin N for the soul, 241-248

high-performance workplace, 182-187

high-rise development, 201-202

high-tech/high-nature housing, 161-162, 222-223

hiker’s high, 75-77

Hinman, Larry, 23, 268

Hispanics, 135-138

HIV, 49-50

Hockenberry, John, 33

Hollembeak, Lucy, 113

Hooked on Nature, 147, 261

Hopkins, Rob, 129-130

Hort-Science, 80

Houck, Mike, 116-117, 138, 213, 216

Houston Wilderness, 214

Hubbell, Anne, 140, 233

Hubbell, Jim, 140, 233-235

Hughes, Nancy, 206

Human-Environment Research Laboratory, 29

human genome, 75-77

“human kindness in the natural community,” 111-114

human/nature report card, 125-130

human/nature social capital, 5, 110-119

human perception, 11-18

human rights, 265-269

humility, sense of, 18-20, 52, 280

Hundred-Acre Wood, 201

Hurricane Katrina, 10-11

Hutchinson, Cory Sue, 278-281

hybrid cars, 226-227

hybrid houses, 161-162

hybrid mind, 5, 21-40

hybrid thinking, 36-40

natural creativity, 33-36

nature smart, 24-32

Hyman, Frank, 204-205

iBrain (Small), 37

immersion philosophy, 276-277

In Search of Kinship (Lambert), 273

independent play, 150-151

Indian Bend Wash, 207

Indian Institute of Architects, 201

Indiana University, 16

Indians, 98, 109, 123, 179

infilling, 224

info-blitzkrieg, 22-24

information transfer, 32

Ingham, Sage, 75

innate awareness, 32

insects, 167-172

inspiration, 50

Institute of Town Planners, 201

integrated medicine, 82

intelligence, 5, 25, 32, 36-40

intelligence enhancement, 26-27

International Agency for Research on Cancer, 178

International Association for Ecotherapy, 64

interruption science, 22-23

Intertwine Alliance, 214

intuition, 15-18

invasive species, 167-172

isolation of life, 110-119

Jackson, Maggie, 22-23

Jackson, Wyoming, 99, 223

James, David, 275-276

James, Kay, 275-276

Jarawa tribespeople, 15

Jefferson, Thomas, 131-132, 133

Jenks, Susan, 30

Jensen, Deborah, 134-135

Jewishness, 244

Jones, Van, 269

Journal of Neuroscience, 60

Journal of the American Medical Association, 84

Julian, California, 233

Kahn, Peter, 162-163

Kamenetz, Anya, 277

Kansas State University, 80

Kaplan, Rachel, 27-29

Kaplan, Stephen, 27-29

Kaplan Thaler Group, 22

Kazdin, Alan, 65-66

Keating, Janet, 270-272, 278, 281

Keel, Lorin, 149-150

Kellert, Stephen, 71, 184, 209-210, 221-222

Kennedy, Eleanor, 85

Kenney, Andy, 207

Ker, Peter, 210

Khan, Peter H., Jr., 67

Khoury, Chris, 237

Kids Count, 126

Kids in the Valley, Adventuring! (KIVA), 148-149

Kilmer, Val, 36

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 6, 267

Kissel, Jason, 212-213

Kodiak brown bears, 9-10, 18-20

Kool, Rick, 113

Kotkin, Joel, 94

Krause, Bernie, 175

Kristof, Nicholas, 128

Kruger, Suzanna, 115-116

Kumeyaay Indians, 109, 131, 179

Kuo, Frances, 63-64

La Jolla, California, 117-119

La Plata River, 278-280

Lake Cuyamaca, 287-288

Lake Erie Allegheny Partnership for Biodiversity, 214

Lake Hodges, 105-106, 109

Lambert, Page, 273-274

Land Ethic, 250

land-trust movement, 210-213, 262

Landen, Karen, 14-15, 165-166

language of nature, 254-255

Las Vegas, 120-121

Last Child in the Woods (Louv), 3, 55, 62-63, 148, 163, 266

Lau, Alberto, 120-121 lawns, 170

learning ability, 29-32

LEED certification, 261

Leopold, Aldo, 249-251, 253, 256, 257

Leopold, Carl, 251

Leopold, Estella, 251, 253

Leopold, Nina, 251

Leopold Center, 251

Levine, Elijah, 193

Levine, Jim, 192-193

Levine, Joan, 192-193

Lewis, Charles A., 108

Lewis, Meriwether, 132

Lewis and Clark College, 67

life expectancy, 94-95

light at night (LAN), 178

Limits to Growth (Meadows), 157

Lincoln, Abraham, 4

Lindblad National Geographic Expeditions, 25

Lindsey, Gail, 93, 164, 182-183

Liu, Gilbert C., 47

living fences, 100-101

living in place, 122, 128-131

living walls, 161, 202

Lockheed, 186

Loftness, Vivian, 184

loose parts theory, 34

Los Angeles Times, 17

Louisiana State University, 105

Louv, Jason, 1-2, 36-37, 102, 131, 141, 218, 288

Louv, Kathy, i-2, 77, 100-101, 102, 140-141, 226, 287-288

Louv, Kyle, 76

Louv, Matthew, 9-ii, 18-20, 21, 36-37, 141-142, 241-242, 247

Lowry, Chris, 60

Lucy the white deer, 110, 113

Lyons, Oren, 239

Macleans, 37-38

Mancos River, 280

Mang, Marlis, 29

Manocchia, Adriano, 91-93

Mansell, Tom, 160

Mantel, Hilary, 35

Maricopa County Parks Department, 261-262

Martinez, Juan, 135-138

Martinez Rojas, Juan Antonio, 14

Martinson, Tom, 231-232

Mason/Walmart Line, 97-99

mass transit, 229-231

Mather, Thomas N., 217

Matthews, Dorothy, 30

McCommons, James, 134

McDonough, William, 227

McGown, Evan, 31-32

Meadows, Donella (Dana), 157-158

Medical Mile, 85

Meling, Andy, 102-103, 131

Memorial Ecosystems, 236

memories, 145-146

Menninger, Karl, 65

mental health tonic, 58-62

methylphenidate, 27

Miller, Daphne, 82-87

Mind, 65

mind, the, 11

mind/body/nature connection, 46-55

“mindsight,” 16, 17

mining, 63, 270-273

mitochondria, 53, 80-81

Miyazaki, Yoshifumi, 51, 86

modafinil, 27

Mola mola, 247-248

monarch butterflies, 143

Monash University, 183

Monitor, 16

Monsters of God (Quammen), 19-20

Montalvo, Celso, 25, 33

morals, 268

Moreton Bay fig tree of Spring Valley, 118

Morrison-Knudsen Nature Center, 164-165

Mount Katmai, 10, 11

mountaintop removal, 270-273

Muir, John, 46, 70, 273

Murdoch University, 63

Mycobacterium vaccae, 30-31, 60

myopia, 17

Nader, Ralph, 226

Nakatsu, Eiji, 190

names, 272

National Center for Bicycling and Walking, 96

National Environmental Education Foundation, 85

National Environmental Health Association, 83

National Geographic, 75

National Health Service (England), 87

National Historic Landmark, 249

National Park Service, 85, 86

National Recreation and Park Association, 83

National Trust (England), 87

National Wildlife Federation, 83, 133, 146

Native Plant Salvage Program, 133-134

native plants, 166-173

natural balance, 5

natural capacity, 138-139, 219

Natural Capitalism (Hawken), 186

natural creativity, 33-36

natural disasters, 52

Natural England, 54, 87

natural health care system, 81-88

Natural History, 191

Natural History of the Senses, A (Ackerman), 11

natural intelligence, 25

natural killer (NK) cells, 51

natural selection, 245-246

natural urban renewal movement, 197-219

naturalizing workplaces, 182-187

nature breaks, 147

nature-connection practice, 31-32

Nature Conservancy, 125, 235-236

nature-deficit disorder, 3, 11, 62-64, 187, 252

avoiding, 99, 163

nature defined, 52-53

nature neurons, 7-40

hybrid mind, 5, 21-40

operation of, 182-196

singing for bears, 9-20

Nature Neuroscience, 12

Nature of Cities, The, 200

nature paramedicals, 82-88

nature prescription, 78-88

nature preserve/memorial park, 236-237

Nature Principle, 3-6, 114, 233

applying, to mental health, 56-69

in business, 182-196

health care and, 81-88

at home, 157-173

precepts of, 5, 169, 188

nature restoration, 272-273

nature retreats, 182-183

nature smart, 24-32

Nature Strollers, 149-150

nature study movement, 251-252

nature therapy, 46-69

nature views, 47

nature walks, 33-35

“Nature’s Capital,” 87

Navajo rug weavers, 232-233

NBC, 149

near is the new far, 89-154

being where you are, 100-109

the bonding, 140-153

one true place, 91-99

purposeful place, 120-139

welcome to the neighborhood, 110-119

Nedlaw Living Walls, 161

negative impacts of wilderness, 52

neighborhood nearby-nature trusts, 211-212

Neighbourwoods, 207

networks, 260-264

neuroenhancers, 26-27

neurons, 34, 242

new agrarians, 273-278

New Economics Foundation, 127

new edge country, 220-237

New England, 97-98

new nature movement, 249-264

New Orleans, 10-11

New Ranch, 274-278

New Urbanism movement, 226

New York City, 208-209, 214

New York Times, The, 22, 134, 186, 190, 223, 242-243

NewSchool of Architecture and Design, 207

Newsweek magazine, 242

Next Hundred Million (Kotkin), 94

Nippon Medical School, 51

Nissan, 190

No Trespassing, 253-254

noise, 174-177

Noise Pollution Clearinghouse (NPC), 176, 177

nootropics, 26-27

North Face, The, 72, 74

Northwestern U.S., 122-123

Northwestern University, 12

Nova, 187

Nygren, Marie, 220-221, 223

Nygren, Steve, 220-225

Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, 116

obesity, 47, 81, 95, 127, 263

O’Brien, Catherine, 95-97

ocean sunfish, 247-248

Ochs, Elinor, 23

Ohio State University, 176

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, 270

Oleas, Reyna, 24-25

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 54, 188, 256

“one brief Eden,” 45

“one true place,” 91-99, 102

Oregon State University, 279

Oregonian, 229-230

organic farming, 275-278

Orians, Gordon H., 53-54

Orion Magazine, 21-22

Orr, David, 89

Outdoor Channel, 194

outdoor exercise, 70-77, 228-229

Outdoor Fitness (Vindum), 71

outdoor immunity, 49-51

outer and inner world, 245-247

Outside magazine, 100, 235

“Over-Soul, The,” 62

overnight shift work, 178

Oxford Junior Dictionary, 254

Pacific Crest Trail, 152-153

Pacific Ocean, 241-243, 247-248

Page, Margot, 73-74

Palleroni, Sergio, 128-129

Palo Alto High School, 39

Parabola, 246

parent-child attachment, 142-153

Park, Sin-Ae, 80

park prescriptions, 85-88

park rangers, 82-83

Parker, Classie, 208

PBS, 187

Peacock, Doug, 235

peak petroleum, 84, 129

Pearce, Mick, 185-186

Pecos River Ranch, 36

peer-to-peer contagion, 260-264

Peninsular Range, 102

people-and-nature movement, 258-264

PepsiCo, 186

Pera, Gina, 174

permaculture, 129

Perry, Tony, 17

personal identity, 278-281

Petrini, Carlo, 205

pets, 60-61, 215

phytoncides, 51

Picacho del Diablo, 102-103

place blindness, 100-105

Planet Drum Foundation, 122

planned communities, 220-237

plant blindness, 105-109

plant rescue, 133-134

Plant Science Bulletin, 105-106

play spaces, 209

pocket parks, 212

Pollan, Michael, 108

Pope, Carl, 254

Portland, Oregon, 86, 213-214, 216, 224-225, 229-230

Portland Parks and Recreation, 116

Portland State University, 115, 128

Poway High School, 282-285

Pretor-Pinney, Gavin, 180-181

Pretty, Jules, 59-60

Primary Care Trusts, 87

Prince Claus Award, 185

Project Concern, 76

Project FeederWatch, 133

proprioception, 13, 18

Providence Missionary Baptist Church, 267

Provigil, 27

Pryde, Phil, 105

Przybylski, Andrew, 112

psychoactive substances, 26-27

Psychological Science, 29

Purdue University, 61

purposeful place, 5, 120-139

Putnam, Robert, 110-111

Pyle, Robert Michael, 18, 21-22

Qing, Li, 51

Quammen, David, 19-20

Quivira Coalition, 274-275

ragged edge sports, 72-77

rain forest, 101

Rao, V. R., 15

Raven, Isabel, 1-2

Raven, Nick, 1-2

Raytown, Missouri, 43-45, 266-267, 269

real field trips, 30

Reality Sandwich, 277

reconciliation ecology, 167

red gum eucalyptus trees of Ramona, 118-119

Regenerative Design Institute, 31

Register, Richard, 225-228

reinhabitation, 122

relationship, 254, 255

religion, 18, 243-248, 268

re-naturing the psyche, 56-69

Rensink, Ron, 16

respectful imitation, 189-190

restorative buildings, 184-187

restorative cities, 197-219

restorative environmental design, 221-222

restorative homes and gardens, 157-173

restorative power of nature, 45-69

restorative transportation, 226-231

Reynolds, Joanna, 104

risk, 215-217

Ritalin, 27

river restoration, 278-281

Riverdale Center of Religious Research, 245

Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program, 85

robotics, 23

Rocky Mountain News, 94-95

Romanowski Park, 203

Roosevelt, Theodore, 252, 256

Rooted in the Earth (Glave), 138-139

Rosen, Howard, 120-121

Rosenbloom, Sandra, 94

Rosenblum, Lawrence D., 14

Rosenzweig, Michael L., 167

Roszak, Theodore, 62

Royal Roads University, 113

rule of beauty, 231-235

runner’s high, 75-77

Rush, Benjamin, 65

Rutgers University, 205

Ryan, Richard M., 112

Sacramento Tree Foundation, 206

Sagan, Carl, 40

sage, 107

Sage Colleges, 30

Salazar, Ken, 137

Salton Sea, 103

San Diego, 102-110, 130-135, 207-209

San Diego County Bird Atlas, 132

San Diego Natural History Museum, 130

San Diego State University, 105

San Diego Union-Tribune, 104

San Diego Zoo, 131, 142, 195

San Francisco, 185, 217-218, 261

San Juan National Forest, 279

Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold), 249-251

Santa Ysabel, California, 235-237

Santa Fe, New Mexico, 85-86, 274

Scalesia Foundation, 24

Schill, Mark, 94

Schoeben, Spencer, 39-40

Schumacher, E. F., 188

Schussler, Elisabeth E., 105-106

science, 245-246, 257, 268 Science, 16

Scientific American, 26, 48

Scott, Debra, 150

Scripps Institute of Oceanography, 25-26, 242

Selborne hamlet, 222

self-healing, 56-57

senses, 11-20

Sequestering Carbon Accelerating Local Economies (SCALE), 276-277

Serenbe development, 221-226, 231, 232

serotonin, 60

Sespe Condor Sanctuary, 131

Severson, Kim, 186-187

Shack, the, 249-251

Shenandoah, 178-179

Shepard, Paul, 7

Shinkansen Bullet Train, 190

Shinsky, Brook, 72-74

Shoemaker, Candice, 80

sick building syndrome, 184

Siebert, Charles, 242-243

Sierra Club, 67, 136, 137, 254, 261

Sierra San Pedro Mártir, 102-103, 131

silence, 141-142, 174-177

Silent Spring (Carson), 253

Silverberg, Michael, 19 0

singing for bears, 9-20

sixth sense, 15-18

Skinner, Katy, 204

sky blindness, 177-181

Sky Factory, 162

Slow Food movement, 146, 205

slurry, 271

Small, Gary, 37-38

Small Is Beautiful (Schumacher), 188

smart drugs, 26-27

Smart Growth movement, 226

smell, sense of, 12-13

Snyder, Gary, 52, 122, 157

Sobel, Noam, 12

Solakian, Joe, 9, 19

solar power, 255

solastalgia, 63-64

solitude, 140-142, 284-285

Solnit, Rebecca, 202-204

Soule, Michael, 217

South Carolina National Guard, 17

South Central Los Angeles, 135-137

South Coast Air Quality Management District, 176

Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy, 105

Southern California/Northern Baja, 130-131

“special people and special places,” 144-148

spirit, sense of, 18

spiritual intelligence, 243-244

Spring Island community, 223

Springwatch, 133

Stahl, Dean, 165

Stahl, Jonathan, 152-153, 244

State University of New York, 191

Stepner, Mike, 207

Stix, Gary, 26-27

Stonewall Peak, 77, 287

storms, 70, 97

Strassburg, Kim, 230

stress, 47, 50, 51, 54-55, 81, 112, 145, 185

suburbs, 220-237

subutopia, 231-235

suicide, 97

Suk, Michael, 86

Sundstrom, Bob, 14

Sunset magazine, 186

superbirders, 14-15

superior learning environment, 30

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, 271-273

sustainability, 127-129, 234, 254, 275-276, 280, 281

beyond, 256-259

Sustainability Institute, 158

“sustainable happiness,” 94-97

Swaisgood, Janice, 142-143, 151

Swaisgood, Owen Dyar, 143-144

Swaisgood, Ron, 142-144, 151, 195

swimming ponds, 162

Tallamy, Doug, 166-171

Taoism, 46, 160

Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus of Escondido, 118

Teal Farm, 277

Teardrop Park, 209

Technological Nature (Kahn), 162-163

technology, 5, 36-40, 188, 234

technonaturalists, 192-196

termite mounds, 185-186, 190-191

Texas A&M University, 54

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 57, 187, 195

Thaler, Linda Kaplan, 22

TheCityChicken.com, 204

therapy as if nature mattered, 64-69

Thomas, Dianne, 58

Thoreau, Henry David, 33, 41, 116, 252, 253, 256

3 Creek Ranch, 223

Three Ring Theory, 259-264

ticks, 215, 217

time awareness, 34-35

Time magazine, 95

“Timeless Way of Building, The,” vii

Toben, Caroline, 244-245

Today, 149

Tolkien, J. R. R., 141

Tomas de Berlanga School, 24

tornadoes, 179-180

Torrey Pines State Park, 26, 58

Total Habitat, 162

Totnes, England, 129

Townsend, Mardie, 56, 210

Toyota Prius, 226-227

Transformative powers of nature, 5

Transition Town movement, 129, 130

Treadwell, Timothy, 9

Treehugger, 226

Trees, 87, 100, 113, 117-119, 190-192, 203, 233

urban, 203, 206-208

“Trees Mean Business,” 191-192

“trekker’s guide to life and romance,” 152-153

Troeger, Jack, 177-178

Trojan Horse Effect, 179, 224, 226

trout, 73-74, 103

Trust for Public Land (TPL), 208, 211, 253

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, 229-230

Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society, 134

Turner, J. Scott, 191

Twain, Mark, 182

twenty-first century, 245-247, 265-269

Tyson, Amanda, 152-153

UBC Reports, 16

Ulrich, Roger S., 54

United Nations, 228, 245

Environment Programme (UNEP), 189

U.S. Department of the Interior, 137

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 82

U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, 250

U.S. Forest Service, 27, 250

Unitt, Philip, 132

universal design, 188-192

University College London, 13

University of Alcalá de Henares, 13-14

University of Arizona, 94, 167, 179

University of British Columbia, 16

University of California

Berkeley, 12

Davis, 216

Irvine, 29

Los Angeles, 23, 37

Riverside, 14

San Diego, 283

San Francisco, 82

Santa Cruz, 122, 173, 217

University of Colorado, 34

University of Delaware, 166

University of Essex, 59-60

University of Guelph-Humber, 185

University of Illinois, 29, 63, 108, 112-113

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 152

University of Michigan, 29

University of Minnesota, 144

University of Rhode Island, 217

University of Rochester, 111

University of San Diego, 23

University of Sheffield, 111

University of Toronto, 207

University of Vermont, 152

University of Washington, 53, 67, 84, 162, 191, 253, 258

University of West Florida, 230

University of Wisconsin, 250

Uppsala University, 51

urban forestry, 203, 206-208

Urban Greenspaces Institute of Portland, 116

Urban Growth Boundary, 115

Urban Land Institute (ULI), 224

urban natural renewal, 197-219

urban parks, 209-213, 231

urban wildlife, 114-117, 213-219

Values Institute, 23

Vastu Shastra, 160

virtual, 162-164

Vermont, 97-98, 152, 277

vertical farms, 201-202

vertical gardens, 160-161

Veterans Administration Hospital System, 65

veterans of wars, 66-67

Via Verde, 202

video games, 36-38, 266

views of nature, 265-269

Vindas, Max, 101

Vindum, Tina, 71

violence, 112-113

vision, 16-17

vitamin N, 5, 41-88

deep green high, 70-77

fountains of life, 46-55

the garden, 43-45

nature prescription, 78-88

re-naturing the psyche, 56-69

for the soul, 241-248

Viva Terra, 160

Volcano of Water, 76-77

volunteers, 131-135, 260

Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, 228

walking, 59, 60, 75-77, 81, 228-231

Wandersee, James, 105-106

Washington Post, 85

Washington State University, 206

Washington University, 15-16

“Watching Whales Watching Us,” 242-243

“we are not alone,” 114-117

Weinstein, Netta, 112

“welcome to the neighborhood,” 110-119

wen, 113-114

West Virginia, 270-273

Western Harbor community, 200-201

whales, 242-243

White, Courtney, 274-278

White Mountain National Forest, 253

wild animals, 61, 101

Wild Center at Tupper Lake, 123-125

Wild in the City (Houck), 116

Wild Soundscapes (Krause), 175

wildlife control, 20, 214-217

wildlife corridor system, 217

Wilson, E. O., 53, 71, 168, 187, 267, 268

Win-Win Ecology (Rosenzweig), 167

wingsuit flying, 72-74

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 102

Wolf, Kathleen L., 191-192

wonder, 241, 243

Woodland Park Zoo, 134-135

Woodland Trust, 133

Wordsworth, William, 155

work-campers, 134

World Database of Happiness, 128

World Health Organization, 175, 178

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 233

Wurtmann, Jon, 195

Yahoo, 186

Yale University, 65-66, 71, 128, 184, 209

Yosemite National Park, 82-83

Yoshifumi Miyazaki, 51, 86

Young, Jon, 31-32

Zimm, Louie, 241-242, 247-248

zoning regulations, 224, 232