''Beautifully written, intimate and intellectually fascinating'' Nathan Filer-This book represents, genuinely, a moment of ground-breaking importance for how we think about nature, access and wellbeing in late capitalism- Dr Alice Tarbuck -Impeccably researched . . . A call to us all to find a place within the simplicity and complexity of nature- Lara Maiklem, bestselling author of MudlarkingEverybody is talking about the healing properties of nature. Hospitals are being retrofitted with gardens, and forests reimagined as wellbeing centres. On the Shetland Islands, it is possible to walk into a doctor-s surgery with anxiety or depression, and walk out with a prescription for nature.Where has this come from, and what does -going to nature- mean? Where is it - at the end of a garden, beyond the tarmac fringes of a city, at the summit of a mountain? Drawing on history, science, literature and art, Samantha Walton shows that the nature cure has dee
