<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a9a77e9-9535-42c2-b74c-d3454e837ba0/14A102AD-E071-4131-9B6F-8AA85DB159D4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/the-healing-power-nature" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/the-healing-power-nature" style="font-size: 11px;">www.psychologytoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/the-healing-power-nature"><H1>The Healing Power of Nature</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/the-healing-power-nature"><P>A bit of green may calm a child's frayed nerves. Rural children who have access to nature seem better equipped to handle <A title="Psychology Today looks at Stress" class="glossify_term" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/stress">stress</A> than kids in a room without a view. What's more, children who are the most vulnerable to stress benefit the most from adding greenery to their lives.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/the-healing-power-nature"><P>Nancy Wells, an environmental psychologist at Cornell University, assessed access to nature in the households of 337 children in grades three through five. She noted the number of houseplants, the amount of greenery seen from windows, and if the yard had grass, dirt or concrete.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/the-healing-power-nature"><P>Wells and her <A title="Psychology Today looks at Team" class="glossify_term" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/teamwork">team</A> also interviewed children and their <A title="Psychology Today looks at Parents" class="glossify_term" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/parenting">parents</A> to rate the kids' stress levels and also gave a standardized stress test. Even when controlling for income and socioeconomic status, the more green a child saw, the better he or she seemed to cope with adversity.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/the-healing-power-nature">And in a previous study, Wells found that children who were surrounded by nature have longer <A title="Psychology Today looks at Attention" class="glossify_term" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/attention">attention</A> spans.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/14A102AD-E071-4131-9B6F-8AA85DB159D4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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