A magical experience in nature, what is it and how does it really work? Marianne Thieme, founder of the Party for the Animals, spoke about this last year in an interview with the newspaper Nederlads Dagblad. ‘Suddenly I found myself face to face with a hare, you have contact for a moment and you still don’t have it. I still feel and see the gentle wind that blew through the grain. Philosophers call it the sublime experience, the moment when an experience of beauty in nature leaves you speechless.
The psychologist Agnes van den Berg has been working on nature and her experience for more than thirty years. She was the first professor of “nature experience” in Dutch academia. In this book, Van den Berg shows himself as a scientist who relies on solid research, facts and data.