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What’s the Science Behind “The Peace” People Experience in Forests?

Science has proven that spending time in nature brings physical, mental, emotional benefits. Forests make people happy!

We bring our experiences of forests with us into the text, video game, D&D session, movie, etc., involving a feeling - Waldeinsamkeit.

Victorian Europe rediscovered the forests and then re-enchanting them by filling them with a safe, fun world of fairies.

Romanticism and Transcendentalism reacted to the rationality of modernity and created a new perspective on the beauty and power of forests.

The modern world caused people to stop being afraid of forests. Reason and science disenchanted them, industry caused people to move away.

Forests are dark, wild, old and untouched by humanity. Living in the midst of such forests naturally led to the folklore of medieval people.

The forests have always been a place that is dark, wild, old and untouched by humanity….as reflected in the in the mythology…

Learn how people in the past understood forests… so we can dive into "what makes a fantasy forest"!

Fantasy stories everywhere include magical forests. Why is that? Let’s find out, starting with the definition of a forest.

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