Health Benefits of a Nature-Inspired Home Landscape

A home garden sanctuary can be immensely healing. Frequent contact with nature affects the quality of the air one breathes, encourages increased physical activity, increases social contacts/interactions, and reduces stress levels. Exposure to a natural environment helps with:

• Reduction of particulate matter

• Increased outdoor play, exercise, and recreation

• Increased interaction with community and neighbors

• Reduction in stress exposures

• Coping resources

• Cognitive and physiological restoration

• Increased academic and occupational performance

• Increased subjective well being

• Decreased cortisol or stress hormone levels

• Decreased depression

• Decreased heart disease

• Increased longevity

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