Escuchemos a Richard, que tuvo la amabilidad de narrar unos pasajes para mí.

Deep noticing can improve our physical, mental and spiritual health.

Puede aumentar la compasión y nuestro sentido de reciprocidad con diferentes tipos de vida.

And our sense of reciprocity with other kinds of life.

And

I should digress here.

She had a very abusive marriage.

And she said her relief from that was to go up the hill and sit on her butt rock and just kind of inhale nature.

And at that level, it was therapeutic.

But back to the artist, she would go out and sit and she would wait, just like the frog, she would wait for life to show up and wait to be able to see the life that was already around her before she picked up her brush.

Long before that.

How do you usually articulate that to people who may not have read the book?

world.

Now that changed in the last 20 years.

The Children and Nature Network, one of its purposes was to be a place where we would collect all the available research and we were beginning to see it increase.

So we wanted to make sure that was in the hands of parents and schools and mayors and everyone.

So there are abstracts independently written of all of the new research on the website, and that's childrenandnature.org, and that's available free, and we wanted to make sure that people had that.

It's only increased.

Today, it's gone from 60 studies to well over 1,500 on the site, and our understanding is that there are as many as 1,700 studies now.

They're communicating

What role do you think that technology is playing on like an individual level?

Well, first, it also makes it harder, of course.

I mean, the addiction to social media, which I've already admitted that I like Instagram too much, and constantly looking at our phones and all that.

But, you know, I use my phone as my camera, and there are map programs.

There are many programs that you can get for your iPhone.

The problem is that they do distract us to an extent.

My measure of whether they're... good apps or not is how long does it take you to look away from your iPhone.

The way we understand nature is changing on a fundamental, scientific level, not just how nature rewires our human brains, but the bigger picture.

Casting the net beyond this region, I've interviewed artists, teachers, botanists, and there are biologists, writers, ranchers, photographers, cons- conservationists, religious leaders, a visiting expert on the, quote, "loneliness of trees" and many others." And then if you see where I'm at, if you don't mind picking up to de- describe what the term deep noticing means.

Okay.

Uh, the term deep noticing does not represent a new concept.

It has been practiced and taught by very, in various forms by different names for thousands of years across cultures.

Now, a new surge of research suggests the existence of a deeper, more mysterious network of life on Earth.

Humans possess far more senses to perceive this network than Western society has generally acknowledged.

Drawing on ancient wisdom and modern science, we're rediscovering that the forest is enchanted and that we can become bioenchanted.

Right.

Give me the good news

newsMore and more people are aware that, um, nature restores them, even on a short-term basis.

Uh, artists are, th- th- have always been interested in nature, but increasingly, um, I have an a, a chapter in a book about a, an artist who goes out into the woods and finds a sit spot and sits there and waits for the life to show up.

It's kinda like sitting next to a creek after the frogs have all disappeared.

And if a fox family, for instance, shows up, she sits there and she just watches, she just notices, and she thinks about their stories.

What are their stories? What did they eat that morning? What are the relationships bet- between the individual foxes? And then she goes back, she takes a quick picture of it, then goes back, and she paints from that, and she paints as she thinks of those stories.

And I swear, when you look at her paintings, you can see the stories in these animals' eyes.

What do you want to come from the new book, the new book which is called Noticing and available for pre-order now?