Mission

White, cold, sterile walls – colorless, lifeless, and certainly not inviting - exemplify the traditional hospital setting. Patients often are under stress, in pain, afraid, and experience endless hours of loneliness. Staring at these walls is boring and depressing. However, the mood changes when there is something to look at and reflect upon. The unique mission of the Foundation is to place large, framed photographs of nature and beautiful places from around the world in hospitals to give comfort and hope to patients and their families, visitors, and caregivers. Studies show that nature art has a beneficial effect on relieving a patient’s stress and anxiety. The photographs are intended to provide color and an atmosphere of compassion where healing is encouraged.

Guiding Principles

• We believe that beautiful nature images can help heal the soul, which in turn helps heal the body.

• We support the researchers and practitioners who recognize the strong link between soothing hospital environments and patients’ improvement in health, both mental and physical.

• We maintain that providing photos of nature and places from around the world to medical facilities will bring appreciation of the earth’s immense beauty.

• We value the full range of human diversity and seek to cross cultures by speaking to different personalities through nature art – almost everyone enters a hospital sometime in their life, either as a patient or as a visitor, regardless of race, sex, religious affiliation, culture, and economic level.

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Strategic Plan, 2009 - 2011