Natural Mind

Catrin Welz-Stein

As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible….In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical “therapy” to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.

Having lived and worked in New York City for half a century — a city “sometimes made bearable… only by its gardens” — Sacks…