The Benefits of Nature and Importance of Its Preserving

Nature is precious it gives us more than we ask for free and is meant to better everyone by giving people food and conducive air when out in the shade. This essay will cover the benefits of being surrounded by nature especially to those living in the city and the importance of preserving nature as well.

Planting trees in the city can have many benefits for people whether directly or indirectly. It’s a fact that nature contributes to a reduction in stress, which is known for contributing to serious diseases like heart attacks and the outcome may lead to sudden death or other diseases like diabetes. According to research in late 90’s Ulrich conducted observation in the field of a mental facility where he wanted to know why some patients recovered faster than others and why it was taking longer for the rest. Shepley et al (2017) emphasizes on effectiveness of environmental qualities and features as perceived by staff. Nature makes peoples prefer to walk more as they have learned the benefit that comes with it like economic benefit of which it helps individuals increase their productivity at work and even finish their work faster than planned. Bratman et al (2015) talked about the benefits of nature experience on how they improve cognition. Those exposed to the environment are observed to have the best sleep, improvement on their diet, better hygiene and promotion of good behaviour.

There are also some other advantages associated with people in mental facilities. Greenery reduces crime in the neighborhood because its nature makes people feel happier and less angry after a stressful day. Wohlleben (2016) talked about how trees relate to What they people feel, how they communicate — Discoveries from a sec. the research has shown that trees clean the air and people’s feelings as well.

At times people get to forgive more than react back to their anger. In addition it acts as an anger management class through stress reliever mode and that’s why people love to do their yoga class in parks. In relation to Williams (2017) gave reasons on why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative. Furthermore the crime is reduced because nature brings people together through socialization. Large developed cities there are parks where people get to hang out and relax after work as some go to read their novels, sleep and others picnics. This park helps to expose the burglaries to public through the neighborhood watch, in addition they are guided by patrol officers. According to recent reports it has been reported that neighborhoods with parks have fewer crime activities compared to the ones that have no park. Honold et al (2016) wrote on nature views from home, greenways, and public parks, which is meant to restore the cities to safer environment. Children growth is also helped by being surrounded by trees through development psychologist of nature observation in creating awareness skills and health lives growing up greenery areas. Reuben et al (2019) wrote research on residential neighbourhood greenery and children's cognitive development. The research was covering on better upbringing of a child in green environment.

Green city is also good for the environment. Through planting trees in the city air pollution is reduced. Air pollution is mainly caused by industrial activities that are done by human being through releasing toxic chemical from the industries. The trees reduce air pollution by observing this gases like nitrogen when they settle on their leaves. Grote et al (2016). highlighted on functional traits of urban trees where they talked about air pollution mitigation.

Tree planting effectively reduce the average temperature of the city mitigate the heart island effect. There was an observation that was conducted and showed that carbon dioxide is removed from the environment through the process of photosynthesis where a decrease on consumption of fuel which people used for heating purpose. Del et al (2019) encourage energy efficiency and reduction of CO2 emissions from campsites management in a protected area. This helps to store carbon in the soil and provide oxygen to people.

To conclude the essay, nature is a sense of comfort and its exposure brings a sense of belonging and production of stress hormones. There are various advantage of people in mental facilities when it comes to nature and the children are helped to. Greening the city is also good for environment, through supporting the planting of trees in the city can reduce air pollution. Trees are indispensable and precious resource for cities. Tree planting effectively reduce the average temperature of the city.

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