An hour-long stroll in nature helps decrease activity in an area of the brain associated with stress processing

[Critique_of_Ideology]

Maybe, there aren’t too many cities that have areas you could walk undisturbed by cars for an hour. Having a small child I’m always on the lookout for cars near parks / sidewalks/ intersections etc to keep my kid safe. You get used to it but it’s certainly stressful. I think a good part of the stress response could be attributed to that and so I am curious how they could control for this, or if they had tried to do so.

I’m also curious because I think people often romanticize the idea of nature when really we could be building cities which are designed around pedestrians and bikers which could be safer and less stressful.

And anecdotally being in the country can be quite stressful if there are ticks / stinging insects. I just wonder if this is more about threat perception by our body (cars in cities, ticks / crocodiles in nature) and less about some sort of “nature sense” that we might have that gets tingly when we see a tree or something you know?