Modern science now validates what ancient cultures instinctively knew: spending dedicated time in a forest environment triggers profound physiological benefits. This is most famously quantified through the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku , or .
Today, she was following the silver-thread upstream to where it widened into a pool called Gina's Mirror. Legend said that Gina—a woman from no known history, a name without a face—had drowned herself in that pool to escape a war that was burning the old world. But the forest had caught her soul before it could leave, weaving it into the roots of a single yew tree that grew on the pool's eastern shore. And ever since, the pool showed not your own reflection but the reflection of what the forest needed you to see.
A forest professor's assessment was damning: the area covered by Gina Tricot's seedlings was so small that it didn't qualify as a real forest by any reasonable definition. This is not merely a matter of semantics. When a company promises a forest, customers envision something majestic and enduring—not a token gesture that a single acre of land could contain many times over.
: Trees emit organic compounds called phytoncides to protect themselves from insects. When humans inhale these compounds, it increases our concentration of "Natural Killer" (NK) cells, which help fight off infections and diseases.