Here over 200 plants of many varieties hang from the ceilings and walls in the corridors and decorate bedrooms.
Fish swim lazily in six strategically-placed aquariums.
You might even see a resident wheeling through the hallways with Benny or Harry, the resident rabbits, or Theodore, the teddy bear hamster, nestled in her lap. No, this is the medical center of a retirement community. In the natural environment where there is biological diversity, Thomas observed, many interrelated processes are going on at the same time. The result, Thomas said, is an antiseptic, uninteresting milieu where residents are bored and lonely and feel helpless. It struck a resonant chord with the Canterbury team.