for meaning, people will create it by taking responsibility for the design of our personal, social, and planetary future.
Humans have a unique and extraordinary capacity to choose our destiny by conscious collective action, which is driven by their WorldView: a cultural system of customary beliefs, values, and perceptions that encode our shared learning. Human brains are flexible and learn about what we pay attention to; we can train our brains to understand systems thinking and pay attention to the land and our place in the land. We know that positive affiliation with nature is good for human health, development, and wellbeing and we can use our cognitive abilities to put this into practice and into our WorldView. Chapter 3 begins to capture the rich history of the ways that humans have interfaced with the natural environment for health benefits.
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