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Re:How Trees Calm Us Down by anilgulecha on Friday July 08, 2016 @12:36AM (#12053584)
One hypothesis is that we've also evolved to associate greenery with healthy land and lifestyle. I can see why these signals from millions of years can have the 1% quoted effect.
Re:How Trees Calm Us Down by ObeyTheGuts on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:15AM (#12054184)
I think its obvious, we like rivers, mountains, flowers, greenery as they all represent fertillity of the land! (Mountains mean that there will be water even in draughts)
Re:How Trees Calm Us Down by ghettoCoder on Friday July 08, 2016 @10:18AM (#12055648)
Only if you consider Coors Light, the mountain beer, to be water (which it is).

Draught is the british (and Canada, other places as well) spelling for draft as in draft beer. Not trying to be grammar nazi, just thought it was funny cause the typo was somewhat well placed.

Re:How Trees Calm Us Down by throwanem on Friday July 08, 2016 @11:34AM (#12056239)
> if you consider Coors Light, the mountain beer, to be water

What did water ever do to you?

Re:How Trees Calm Us Down by internaut on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:02AM (#12054874)
Here's a different hypothesis:

We are mostly not human. Our bodies contain a vast assortment of usually symbiotic species so it is appropriate to think ecologically, more co-evolution.

It seems reasonable that flora and fauna responses to environmental factors that in of themselves may not be directly relevant to a human, but that we benefit from the interaction as a side effect e.g. useful compounds being produced naturally, partially synthesized from plant life even though the direct plant product may show no sign of helping us because we cannot yet process it artificially. Hope that makes sense.

Having said that, the Japanese researcher I mentioned above does say some kinds of hinoki oil produce comparable effects to traveling in forests.

Now seems like a good time to plug my favorite anime on tiny invisible life forms:

Mushishi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807832/

Re:How Trees Calm Us Down by choxi on Friday July 08, 2016 @01:21AM (#12053671)
The interesting question to me is: is that hard-coded or learned?
Re:How Trees Calm Us Down by anilgulecha on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:34AM (#12053897)
Evolutionary traits are usually hard-coded.