Iowa Parks Foundation

This makes sense to us!

"A growing body of research shows that people who spend time outside in sunny, green and natural spaces tend to be happier and healthier than those who don’t. A study from Stanford last year, for example, found that young adults who walked for an hour through campus parkland were less anxious afterward and performed better on a test of working memory than if they had strolled along a busy street.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/the-picture-of-health/?mabReward=A3&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

Greenery (or Even Photos of Trees) Can Make Us Happier Being in nature helps reduce stress — but so might looking at photos with trees in them.