It is not that we are exhausted by effort. We are exhausted by interruption.
The natural world does not compete for attention.
It does not flash or demand. It waits.
Environmental psychologists have a name for what happens when we step into these quieter, more spacious environments: Attention Restoration Theory. First proposed by Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, it suggests that the mind recovers not through stimulation, but through a gentler form of noticing — what they called “soft fascination.”
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