Monday, July 1, 2019

Healing Nature



This was ripe. A real goodie. The Corp media was always worth a short flick.
       Pic of boaters on Lake Leman in Lausanne, Switzerland for the story of the healing power of nature.

       Doctor’s orders — spend two hours a week in nature

       The point had been made by a famous English lit. crit. of two or three generations ago whose name has been forgotten: Put Wordsworth in the Tropics, what kinda “fair seed-time” he get for his soul?
       Fast-forward now: rip out the forest and jungle, substitute concrete, iron, steel and aircon; monoculture of rubber and palm trees and chemical factories discharging into the waterways. (Hundreds of schoolchildren overcome by fumes the last number of weeks in Johor.) Add drought, huge disparities of income, political fixes, military regimes, blanket State-owned media and consumerism plus plus plus. You find yourself in a pretty pickle.


                                                                 Monday July 1 2019 Straits Times, life, p. D6                         

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