By Lisa Roberts
The Orlando Sentinel
(MCT)
ORLANDO, Fla. - There's something about the outdoors - something essential - that Lynn Van Horne and her husband, Kurth Chin Fatt, must have.
The couple hike most Saturdays and often shape their vacations around backpacking and camping. "My husband and I have backpacked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon six times," said Van Horne, who teaches at McCoy Elementary School in Orlando, Fla. "It is the most amazing thing. We come home rejuvenated and completely relaxed. You are so in the moment that your brain is completely rested from anything stressful."
Call it nature's cure.
Though the present-day "built environment" - the infrastructure of cities and suburbs and their accouterments - has greatly insulated us from this nature of ancient mankind, our bond is not easily relinquished. In fact, research into humanity's relationship with nature - or lack of it - is finding that it can be a salve for mind, body and spirit.
The Orlando Sentinel
(MCT)
ORLANDO, Fla. - There's something about the outdoors - something essential - that Lynn Van Horne and her husband, Kurth Chin Fatt, must have.
The couple hike most Saturdays and often shape their vacations around backpacking and camping. "My husband and I have backpacked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon six times," said Van Horne, who teaches at McCoy Elementary School in Orlando, Fla. "It is the most amazing thing. We come home rejuvenated and completely relaxed. You are so in the moment that your brain is completely rested from anything stressful."
Call it nature's cure.
Though the present-day "built environment" - the infrastructure of cities and suburbs and their accouterments - has greatly insulated us from this nature of ancient mankind, our bond is not easily relinquished. In fact, research into humanity's relationship with nature - or lack of it - is finding that it can be a salve for mind, body and spirit.
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