professor kathy willis
Good Nature.
Kathy Willis CBE is Professor of Biodiversity in the department of Biology at the University of Oxford. Having also held the position of Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, she knows a thing or two about plants.
I was honoured to work with Kathy, and her publisher Bloomsbury, in the run up to the launch of her new book, Good Nature. Subtitled Why seeing, smelling, hearing and touching plants is good for our health, it provides the missing science behind what we have instinctively known for many years: that being in nature makes us feel better.
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Fifteen years ago, University of Oxford Professor, Kathy Willis read a study that radically changed her view of our relationship to the natural world. The study proved that patients recovering in hospital from surgery improved three times faster when they looked out of their windows at trees.
Kathy has dedicated her research to proving the link between the amount of green space in our lives and our health, mood, and longevity. For the first time ever, Good Nature brings together the scientific findings that demonstrate the many surprising and practical ways we can use nature to enhance our wellbeing.
“I love what you have done.”