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Losing Eden

Why Our Minds Need the Wild

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Losing Eden

By: Lucy Jones
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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.

©2020 Lucy Jones (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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"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)

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Interesting and informative

I have been listening to this on my commute and found the studies fascinating. I have been talking of little else and using this to interest my students in the environment.

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Author is not a good narrator

Good content but the author’s narration is not great, especially compared to the quality most books have these days.

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authentic voice from a good soul

thx u lucy, great timely book, coming from an authentic voice... the analogy of change as depicted by the image of the Berlin wall coming down so swiftly gave me hope that sometimes changes are accumulating and at a point will create the great reset.

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Very inspirational and informative

I thoroughly enjoyed this! A lot of interesting and insightful information and I feel inspired

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Excellent subject matter, well researched

Loved this book. Well read, brilliant subject matter, extensively researched and well-informed. Everyone should listen to this urgently!

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Wow!

This opened up my eyes to the effect nature has on human life! Thank you for writing and sharing with us 💖

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Why we need wildlife and wildlife needs us

This is a well-written and wide-ranging general account of the benefits of wildlife for our health and well-being. It promotes the importance of rebuilding our lost relationship with nature for both our own sake and so that we are more likely to care for and protect our world.

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Really informative, interesting & inspiring

Lucy Jones’ well researched work is the perfect balance of relatable personal anecdotes mixed with informed and accessible science & research based information. What could appear initially to be a very gloomy book in the face of climate crisis contains a lot of positivity and uplifting stories of those working to prove we need nature in our lives; not just to survive but to thrive.
Now all I need to do is to start planting and maybe get some chickens, thanks Lucy!

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Wonderful and informative

Pitched perfectly and very relatable. Informative and full of wisdom. Lucy Jones is a lovely writer and delivers a lot of knowledge while also being very grounded. Just brilliant!

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Beautiful and important

An important novel that unfurls its wings across its chapters examining the human connection with the earth, our need for nature and our hunger to return to it.

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