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The Japanese, who have been at this sort of thing a lot longer, call the experience of stress reduction in natural surroundings "forest bathing," or shinrin-yoku.
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The Japanese, who have been at this sort of thing a lot longer, call the experience of stress reduction in natural surroundings "forest bathing," or shinrin-yoku.
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Inspired by the crisper air, my old sweaters and shinrin-yoku, I'm spending as much time as I can outside.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Forest bathing is translated from the Japanese shinrin-yoku, which has been defined as "taking in the forest atmosphere."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed C. JAMES DALE 2010
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Inspired by the crisper air, my old sweaters and shinrin-yoku, I'm spending as much time as I can outside.
NYT > Art & Design 2010
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Inspired by the crisper air, my old sweaters and shinrin-yoku, I'm spending as much time as I can outside.
NYT > Art & Design 2010
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Inspired by the crisper air, my old sweaters and shinrin-yoku, I'm spending as much time as I can outside.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Inspired by the crisper air, my old sweaters and shinrin-yoku, I'm spending as much time as I can outside.
NYT > Home & Garden 2010
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Inspired by the crisper air, my old sweaters and shinrin-yoku, I'm spending as much time as I can outside.
NYT > Home & Garden 2010
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While the good, old-fashioned term "walk in the woods" still applies in North America, shinrin-yoku has slowly made its way into the vernacular in Japan since a government agency coined it in 1982.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed C. JAMES DALE 2010
alexz commented on the word shinrin-yoku
fancy way of saying walk in the woods , term coined in 1980's Japan.
June 3, 2017
hernesheir commented on the word shinrin-yoku
We nemophilists are everywhere.
June 10, 2017
hernesheir commented on the word shinrin-yoku
I’ll say again, we nemophilists are everywhere.
As a sometime desert /treeless plain dweller, I’d appreciate terms that denote treeless open plains or desert lovers. In my case rolling hills and bluffs with cliffs, folds, glens, valleys, burrens, rills, mesas, ravines, hummocky terrain, hanging valleys and bergschrunds are my preference.
April 28, 2024