Everyone—and everything—thrives with a bit of affection, attention and appreciation. But it wasn’t so long ago that showing nature a little love got a bad rap.

Back in the 1960s, a growing awareness of humanity’s place (and impact) on the earth had spawned the modern environmentalist movement. This led to a push to protect ecological systems from the consequences of rampant consumerism and capitalist-driven ‘progress’—but not everyone was on board. Many of those in mainstream society were uninterested in making a ‘return to nature’ and saw it as idealist