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"The effects of nature’s qualities on health are not only spiritual and emotional but physical and neurological. I have no doubt that they reflect deep changes in the brain’s physiology, and perhaps even its structure."
I was just thinking along these lines today. I broke my ankle and my finger about 7 weeks ago now, and this last week I have had the flu/cold bug, so I was taking it easy today, but looked out on my balcony and was lamenting that I'm behind with starting my tomato plants because of my injuries and then I saw that an aucuba japonica cutting I'd transplanted out there that I wasn't sure if it was going to make it or not - has started growing new leaves and I just felt such simple joy! I took the cutting while on a walk through some medical buildings on a Sunday last fall, and it grew roots, but there was no growth, but I just had it in water until a couple weeks ago when I finally transplanted it outside into some nice soil in a pretty blue ceramic pot - thinking the blue pot and the yellow spotted leaves would be really pretty combo. I also discovered it had some scale on it and I gave it a pretty vigorous scrubbing and when I transplanted it I told it that I was giving it the best organic soil I could get and scrubbed off the bugs and now it was up to him to sink or swim.
So, I limped out to examine him and give him a little pep talk and to congratulate him lol. Just really lifted my spirits immediately. Even though I just garden in containers now, it's just so fun to watch them grow and to care for them.
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