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Blue Eyed Grass

With the calming color blue and the beauty of a wildflower, the image of Blue Eyed Grass engages and distracts the viewer. Blue is the color of spirituality, inspiration and inner peace. In healing blue is used for cooling and calming, both physically and mentally.

Macro image ofWildflower, Blue Eyed Grass

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With the calming color blue and the beauty of a wildflower, the image of Blue Eyed Grass engages and distracts the viewer. Blue is the color of spirituality, inspiration and inner peace. In healing blue is used for cooling and calming, both physically and mentally.

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Growing Wild & Free

Images of the prairie, when displayed in healthcare and working environment provides a refuge and increases productivity. Bring nature indoors can generate positive emotions and release stress.

View of Pale Purple Coneflowers &  Prairie grass & wildflowers

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True Wild Mid West Prairies are a wonderful example of Biophilia or “Love of Life”. They are filled with life and energy. The abundance is evident. The feel of such an atmosphere provides an overwhelming connection nature. Images of the prairie, when displayed in healthcare and working environment provides a refuge and increases productivity. Bring nature indoors can generate positive emotions and release stress.

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Renewal

Images of nature help renew the bond between humans and other living systems in healthcare and corporate settings. Images of nature help heal, reduce stress & inspire the viewer.

Bright Green fern  canes beginning to unfold

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“Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons : it’s rebirth of the spirit. There is a cleaning from darkness the moment we sink our fingers into spring’s fresh earth.” Toni Sorenson. Images of nature help renew the bond between humans and other living systems in healthcare and corporate settings. Images of nature help heal, reduce stress & inspire the viewer.

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Forest Bathing

Images of nature in a health care or corporate setting has much of the same benefits. Visual connections with nature provide an refuge for the body and the mind. Images of nature encourages Forest Bathing when needed.

Forest. in spring with stream

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Spending time in nature can improve one’s health.

Forest Therapy is rooted in the Japanese practice of Shinnin-yoku, often translated as “forest bathing”. The term refers to taking in the forest or nature atmosphere.  It is a therapy developed in Japan during the 1980s, becoming a cornerstone of preventative health care and healing in Japanese medicine.  Studies have demonstrated reductions in stress, anger, anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness as the health benefits of spending time amongst trees and nature.

Images of nature in a health care or corporate setting have much of the same benefits. Visual connections with nature provide an refuge for the body and the mind.  Images of nature encourages “Forest Bathing” when needed.

 

 

 

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On the Glade

A unique combination of plants can be found on a glade. The Blue Wild Indigo and a Yellow Indian Paintbrush are among those that grow in the rocky landscape.

Wild Blue Indigo with Yellow Indian Paintbrush on Missouri Glade

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A unique combination of plants can be found on a glade. The Blue Wild Indigo and a Yellow Indian Paintbrush are among those that grow in the rocky landscape. The glades exist because the rocky core of the Ozark dome is shallow, or sometimes completely exposed on the flat surface of the land. Plants and animals that adapt to glades will remind you of the desert or prairies.

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Take Time to Notice

Details can be engaging and require the attention of the viewer. Components of nature are calming elements in a health and memory care environment.

Tiny purple wild violets in green foliage

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Sometimes it pays to look below your feet, to see the beauty in the simple details.  Take the time to notice the small facts or pieces of a larger entity. The parts of the whole provide information about a much larger story or scene.  Details can be engaging and require the attention of the viewer. Components of nature are calming elements in a health and memory care environment. 

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Rain Drops like Jewels

Water droplets hang like jewels on the blooms of an ornamental onion after a thunder storm. Remember, a flower in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.

Rain drops hang on the bloom of a purple ornamental onion

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Water droplets hang like jewels on the blooms of an ornamental onion after a thunder storm. Remember, a flower in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.

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Dutchman’s Breeches

They have blooms that resemble strings of inverted pantaloons hung out to dry in the spring breeze.These were found along a mossy path during a camera hike.

white dutchman's breeches, native woodland wildflower

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Dutchman’s Breeches are one of the native wildflowers that bloom in the very early spring.  They are an unexpected treat for those who hike on a river bottom trail. They have blooms that resemble strings of inverted pantaloons hung out to dry in the spring breeze.These were found along a mossy path during a camera hike.

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Visual Connection

Sycamore trees just beginning to bud provide a visual connection with nature.

Early spring buds on sycamore trees from below

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Sycamore trees just beginning to bud provide a visual connection with nature. Displaying an scene to focus the the views attention presents a positive link to the outside world.

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Native Dogwood

Fresh blooms of native white dogwood are a reminder of the the renewal of spring

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Fresh blooms of native white dogwood are a reminder of the the renewal of spring. “Spring buds burst to blooms and the breeze carries their song os life” Javita Bhattacharjee

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Pretty in Pink

Spring Cherry Blossom are perfect symbols of humans connection to nature.

Spring Cherry Blossom are perfect symbols of humans connection to nature. The color pink represents unconditional love, requiring nothing in return. Pink which is often associated with women’s health is consider a soft, earthy tone. In nature pink is a uplifting symbol of renewal.  

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Purple Fields

Although the tiny intruder can be a menace to some, it allows the sense to bathe in the joy of spring

Farm field covered with tiny purple flowers

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One of the early sights in the midwest farm lands are the purple fields of spring. Often before the fields are plowed and planted the tiny purple wildflower (a weed actually) the hen bit takes hold. Although the tiny intruder can be a menace to some, it allows the sense to bathe in the joy of spring.

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Natural Benefits

using nature art to bring nature indoors: Images of nature provide all the benefits of outdoor nature scenes but in a format that can exist indoors.

White water lilies floating on dark water with green lily pads

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 using nature art to bring nature indoors: Images of nature provide all the benefits of outdoor nature scenes but in a format that can exist indoors.  Stephen Kellert, author of Nature by Design describes these as, “Images of plants, animals, water, landscapes, and geological features [that] continue to be common forms of contact between people and nature in the built environment.”

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Summer Reflections

When urban art and nature are combined the beauty of both benefit all.

Green lily pads in pool with reflections from the Jewel Box Green housefrom the

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When urban art and nature are combined the beauty of both benefit all. There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water. – Mehmet Murat Ildan.

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Wild in the Woodland

Early spring woodland wildflower appear along the trails in the Midwest. The color purple is associated with wisdom, powder and healing.

Purple wild phlox in the on a woodland path

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Early spring woodland wildflower appear along the trails in the Midwest. The color purple is associated with wisdom, powder and healing.

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Spring at Last

Spring Beauty the first tiny signs of renewal. A welcome sight!

Pink and white tiny flowers of spring,

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Spring Beauty the first tiny signs of renewal. A welcome sight!

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Rush of Spring

Purple Crocus in group

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The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the spring. Look below your feet to see the beauty in simple details.

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Love of Life

Humans have an innate need to affiliate with other life such as plants and animals. This essentially means that humans have a desire to be near nature. A visual connection with nature provides much of the same benefits as a walk in the woods.

White Dogwood blooming in a group of tall trees

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The definition of Biophilia is Love of Life. It is the relationship between humans and nature. Humans have an innate need to affiliate with other life such as plants and animals. This essentially means that humans have a desire to be near nature. A visual connection with nature provides much of the same benefits as a walk in the woods.

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Closer Look

Reducing the subject to an abstract has a calming effect by engaging and distracting the viewer.

Detail of three Red Calla Lily blooms

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Take a closer look at the details, texture and light. Details help the viewer enjoy the elements of an image. Getting close to take in the colors and patterns of the composition draws the viewer in. Getting close allows the subject to be experienced in many different ways. Reducing the subject to an abstract has a calming effect by engaging and distracting the viewer.

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Seeds

Seeds of potential can be found in unlikely places.

Seeds of Little Bluestem native grass against a bright blue sky

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Seeds of potential can be found in unlikely places. Native grasses like Little Bluestem enrich the landscape of the prairie. Much like, images of nature enrich the workplace of health care environment.

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