Over recent years, acknowledgement of human dependence on nature for material needs (food, water, shelter, etc) as well as for psychological, emotional and spiritual needs has been growing. Researchers across a range of disciplines, including psychology, environmental health, psychiatry, land use planning, horticulture, leisure and recreation, wilderness, and public helath policy, have contributed to an accumulation of evidence in support of the idea that contact with nature is good for human health and wellbeing.

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