There’s a wealth of evidence to support the notion that spending time outdoors boosts your mental wellbeing. But before you say it, getting back into nature does not require weekend getaways or travelling outside the city, if that’s where you live.

Rather, many Twitter responses involved simply paying attention, or getting involved. Observing the trees, flowers, the sky, looking for the first signs of spring, walking on the grass, watching the sunset, smelling the air, growing things from seed, listening to the rain from inside… it seems that despite hundreds of years of urbanisation since the Industrial Revolution, we are all still creatures of the earth at heart.

Special shout out to Becca Caddy for this genius idea: “I have an alert for when the ISS is passing overhead, and running outside to spot it always gives me a bit of perspective and wonder!”

How to be happier: find the joy in simple, free things