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Zorg voor de natuur ‘() Childhood participation with ‘wild’ nature (e.g., hiking, camping, or playing
in the woods), had a significant, positive effect on both adult environmental
attitudes and behaviours. That is, people who participated in ‘wild’ nature
activities as children were more likely to have pro-environmental attitudes and
behaviours as adults’ (Children & Nature Network 2012, p.67).
‘The environmental activists stories suggest that when children have access to
the natural world, and family members encourage them to explore it and give
it close attention, they have a strong basis for interest in the environment.
To turn this interest into activism, they later need to build on this foundation
through education, membership in organizations, or the careers that they
pursue; but from their childhood experiences in nature through their own free
play and in the company of significant adults, they carry the memory that the
natural world is a place of such full and positive meaning that it justifies their
most persistent efforts to protect it’ (Chawla 2006, p.75).
Welzijn en ‘Scientific research on the well-being benefits of contact with animals and
welbevinden plants has revealed that encounters with the natural environment are very
Ontspanning likely to have a significant positive effect both physiologically and
Stressreductie psychologically on human health and well-being’
(Townsend and Weerasuriya 2010, p.19).
‘In a rural setting, levels of nearby nature moderate the impact of stressful
life events on the psychological well being of children. Specifically, the impact
of life stress was lower among children with high levels of nearby nature than
among those with little nearby nature’ (Wells & Evans 2003, p.311).