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Evidence that nature is good for you continues to mount, as a new study that compared nature walkers with urban walkers found that folks in the former group were better able to rest their brains. The ...

My dog Scout squeals with excitement as we pull up to the nature reservation 15 minutes outside of Boston where we live. The anticipation of running freely around the forest is almost more than he can ...

“When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: What would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?” wrote Henry David Thoreau in The Atlantic in 1862. Thoreau extolled (and ...

Birds fly over the rainbow — so why can’t you watch your worries fly away, too? A new study from North Carolina State University, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, found that ...

Taking a walk outside really can help you clear your head — but only if you go walking in a natural, green place, a small new study suggests. Researchers found that the 19 people in the study who took ...

A casual stroll on a calm morning or a walk with the family dog in the evening is a simple and easy way to reconnect with nature. The benefits of nature for senior citizens can be found in extra ...