Biophilia definition
Biophilia literally means ‘love of the living world’, but this term refers to the innate attraction humans have for the natural world. The large body of biophilia research has consistently demonstrated that physical and psychological wellbeing is supported by environmental conditions similar to those that would have been evolutionarily advantageous to our survival in the natural world.
Biophilia means to love life and the premise of the bulk of empirical and theoretical work that has been conducted on nature therapies begins with the ‘Biophilia Hypothesis’ as the conceptual and theoretical foundation for all the studies that followed. The term Biophilia is Greek in origin and means to have “love of life or living systems” (Arvay, 2018, p. 2). In Biophilia, Wilson argues that all human beings have an innate and primitive desire and need to connect with other living species or the ‘more- than-human world’ or the ‘non-human world’.