“The best way to deal with stress at work is to go for a forest bath. I go for shinrin-yoku every lunchtime. You don’t need a forest; any small green space will do. Leave your cup of coffee and your phone behind and just walk slowly. You don’t need to exercise, you just need to open your senses to nature. It will improve your mood, reduce tension and anxiety, and help you focus and concentrate for the rest of the day.”
― Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
― Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
“the words of an ancient Jewish prayer: “Blessed art Thou, Lord God of the Universe, that you have brought us alive to see this day.”
― Why Religion?: A Personal Story
― Why Religion?: A Personal Story
“The end was contained in the beginning. But”
― 1984
― 1984
“She flips open the uppermost notebook, to the page where she has just written: In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Susanoo-no-Mikoto plucked one of the hairs from his beard and transformed it into a sugi tree. Then he plucked a hair from his breast and turned it into a cypress tree. He took one from his buttock and turned that into a black pine tree, and one from his eyebrow, which he turned into a laurel.”
― Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
― Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
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