Use All Of Your Senses.

Nature Is About Smelling, Hearing, Tasting, Seeing.

Prize The Natural Spaces And Shorelines Most Of All, Because Once They're Gone, With Rare Exceptions They're Gone Forever. In Our Bones We Need The Natural Curves Of Hills, The Scent Of Chapparal, The Whisper Of Pines, The Possibility Of Wildness. We Require These Patches Of Nature For Our Mental Health And Our Spiritual Resilience.

This Seems Clear Enough: When Truly Present In Nature, We Do Use All Our Senses At The Same Time, Which Is The Optimum State Of Learning.

Another British Study Discovered That Average Eight-year-olds Were Better Able To Identify Characters From The Japanese Card Trading Game Pokemon Than Native Species In The Community Where They Lived: Pikachu, Metapod, And Wigglytuff Were Names More Familiar To Them Than Otter, Beetle, And Oak Tree.

Numerous Studies Document The Benefits To Students From School Grounds That Are Ecologically Diverse And Include Free Play Areas, Habitats For Wildlife, Walking Trails, And Gardens.