Naturen i et hverdagslivsperspektiv - Naturstyrelsen

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♦ Extraordinarily intensive nature experiences can differ in terms of
character. One type is the mysterious-supernatural experience.
Another type is the flowing experience.
Attitudes and wishes regarding nature from the perspective of the
management of time and space:
♦ Time management issues and divergent requirements within the
family make prioritisations necessary in modern everyday living.
The need to step into nature may be well integrated in a lifestyle,
but can also be disintegrated, which feeds people’s wishes for
their nature use.
♦ Spatial management of everyday life implies variations in terms of
closeness/distance to nature. Our survey indicates that closeness
can encourage the appreciation of contemplative experiences in
familiar nature, while distance – e.g. city life – can feed the appreciation
of intensive, poignant nature experience in an unfamiliar
nature.
♦ There is little to indicate that divides in people’s relations to nature
follow the compartments of everyday life. We found instances, in
which working life involved a professional and close relation to
nature. But apart from that we rather found that the different
compartments of everyday life give us various impulses that
synthesise into more complex nature relations.
Attitudes and wishes regarding nature from the perspective of the meeting of
lifetime experience and actual living conditions:
♦ Our analysis indicates that a person’s childhood landscape/nature
does have a particular and lasting significance, yet that it constitutes
merely an ideal/a yardstick if the person is still living in the
same area. Such a stationary life helps to create a profound relation
to ’the dearly familiar nature’, while a rather more mobile life
trajectory will promote a broader, more facetted nature relationship.
♦ Examples from our material indicate that a person’s nature relationship
will not necessarily last or deepen throughout life. It can
also be sated and dwindle.
♦ Our analysis indicates that youth generates a discontinuity between
the nature relations of childhood, resp. adulthood, because
a lot of energy is put into social relations during this phase.
♦ The older generations in our survey see a considerable difference
between their own nature education and that of the present children.
They fear that the younger generation will end up with a
rather more alienated and consumerist nature relationship because
they are not allowed to play in nature unattended by
adults, and because they do not learn how to move around in
nature.