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The Peace of Nature Project

Inspiring you to connect with and experience nature for the benefit of your mental health and well-being.

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

– Henry David Thoreau

Welcome

Brent Seamons, The Peace of Nature Project Founder

Hello, I'm Brent, and welcome to my project!

The Peace of Nature Project is a budding personal passion project of mine that sprouted from the simple idea that connecting with nature benefits our mental health and well-being because of the soothing, healing, and restorative attributes nature has to offer.

Because of my own story of struggle with ADHD and bipolar II disorder (pronounced “bipolar two disorder”) and because of the remarkable benefits to my own mental health and well-being that I’ve experienced from connecting with nature, it has become my mission with this project to share these benefits with you by inspiring you to connect with and experience nature. And it is my vision with this project to build a culture where the connection with nature and mental health awareness inspire the courage to be your true self.

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Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

– Gretel Ehrlich

The Project Philosophy, Mission, and Vision

Old juniper stump bleached by the sun at Idaho's Craters of the Moon.

The Philosophy

Our mental health is health. Mental health should be a normal part of our conversations. Mental health can be influenced by simple actions like connecting with nature. And mental health can always be better understood.

Lupines blooming in the desert south of Boise, Idaho.

The Mission

Inspiring you to connect with and experience nature for the benefit of your mental health and well-being.

Junipers growing from the rocks in the Owyhee Mountains in Idaho.

The Vision

Building a culture where the connection with nature and mental health awareness inspire the courage to be your true self.

The Benefits of Connecting With Nature

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

– John Burroughs

The Benefits of Connecting With Nature

South Fork of the Boise River on the backside of Arrowrock Dam

Nature Soothes

Nature has soothing attributes that do things like:

  • Reducing our feelings of anger and fear and replacing them with more pleasant, happier feelings.
  • Lowering our stress hormone levels.
  • Helping us better tolerate pain.
  • Reducing our screen time and increasing our unplugged time.
  • And that do things like improving our sense of meaning and purpose in life.
The South Fork of the Payette River rushing by.

Nature Heals

Nature has healing attributes that do things like:

  • Reducing our blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension.
  • Reducing our risk of many psychiatric disorders.
  • And that do things like promoting physical movement through activities such as walking and hiking.
Bruneau Canyon Overlook in the desert of Idaho.

Nature Restores

Nature has restorative attributes that do things like:

  • Improving our moods.
  • Improving our sense of well-being.
  • Giving our brains and eyes an opportunity to rest and recharge.
  • And that do things like increasing our attention span in addition to providing other cognitive benefits.

We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

– Andy Goldsworthy

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