文档介绍：Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world. To this end, we walk the dog, play golf, go fishing, sit in the garden, drink outside rather than inside the pub酒馆, have a ic, live in the suburbs在郊外, go to the seaside, buy a weekend place in the country. The most popular leisure休闲的 activity in Britain is going for a walk. And when joggers (慢跑者) jog, they don’t run the streets. Every one of them instinctively本能的 heads to the park or the river. It is my profound深厚的 belief that not only do we all need nature, but we all seek nature, whether we know we are doing so or not.
But despite this尽管如此, our children are growing up nature-deprived (丧失). I spent my boyhood童年 climbing trees on mon, South London. These days, children are robbed of 被剥夺了these ancient freedoms, due to 由于problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and odd 古怪的new perceptions about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found.
The truth is to be found elsewhere. A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (多动症). Those whose modation 住宿had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.
A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten幼儿园 children who