Melanie Choukas-Bradley
Auteur de City of Trees: The Complete Field Guide to the Trees of Washington, D.C.
A propos de l'auteur
Melanie Choukas-Bradley is the award-winning author of several nature books, including Resilience - Connecting With Nature in a Time of Crisis, A Year in Rock Creek Park, City of Trees, and The Joy of Forest Bathing. Melanie brought her love of trees and nature to Washington, DC, following a afficher plus childhood spent wandering the woods and fields of southern Vermont Melanie is a naturalist and certified forest therapy guide. She leads nature hikes, tree tours, forest bathing walks, and kayak trips for many nonprofit organizations in the Washington area and in the American West and New England. Her stories and op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post and many other publications. She can be found at www.melaniechoukas-bradley.com afficher moins
Œuvres de Melanie Choukas-Bradley
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Maryland, USA
- Professions
- author
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Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 124
- Popularité
- #161,165
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 17
- Langues
- 1
She starts by describing the practice and the potential benefits such as lowered stress, blood pressure, and increases in immune system responses and improved mood/mental state. What I found particularly interesting was the information about chemicals that trees and plants emit to protect themselves may also be beneficial when humans breathe them in.
The descriptions of activities and potential activities for each season were useful. I often look and listen when hiking in the woods but really slowing down to observe with all senses in a variety of mindful ways is newer to me.
I appreciated the suggestions for starting the practice and transitioning out of a forest bathing session to make it a little more special. Drinking a cup of tea is so easy but it would not have occurred to me to do so.
The illustrations are beautiful and really add to the feeling of the prose and overall sensibility of the book.
Thank you to NetGalley and the author for providing the eARC.… (plus d'informations)