文档介绍：A Grassroots Remedy
Most of us spend our lives seeking the nat ural world. To this end, we walk the dog, play golf, go fishing, sit in the garden, drink ou tside rather than inside the pub 酒馆，have a picnic, live in the suburbs 在郊夕卜，go to the seaside, buy a weekend place in the country. T he most popular leisure 休闲的 activity in Bri tain 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 be lief that not only do we all need nature, but we all seek nature, whether we know we are doi ng so or not.
But despite this 尽管女口此，our children ar e growing up nature-deprived （丧失）.I spent m y boyhood 童年 climbing trees on Streatham Com mon, South London. These days, children are ro bbed of 被剥夺了 these ancient freedoms, due t o 由于 problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and odd 古怪的 new percepti ons about what is best for children, that is t o say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found.
The truth is to be found elsewhere. A stud y in the US: families had moved to better hous ing and the children were assessed for ADHD一a ttention deficit hyperactivity disorder （多动 症）. Those whose ac commo da tion 住宿 had more n atural views showed an improvement of 19%; tho se who had the same improvement in material su rroundings but no nice view impro