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Energy and the human relationship with nature

In a biophilic year archive

A city’s workings are cut off from nature in the mind, its power arriving from somewhere unseen. Sourcing that energy visibly from sun, wind, and water restores a felt connection practicality alone had severed.

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This essay is part of A Biophilic Year Archive, available with the book A Biophilic Year: 365 thoughts on the essence and practice of biophilic design.