I can believe this. I do 10000 steps a day, religiously, and if it gets to early evening and I’m short I’ll go for a walk. Within an hour of my house there’s a waterfall, three forests, and an small hill with a viewpoint on the top from which I can see to mountain peaks beyond the horizon and across the sea. I’ve never met anyone else who knew those places were there. Most of them, if they want nature, will get in the car, drive to a park and walk about 100m.
Walking is so underrated that it’s easy to forget about it entirely. Thanks for remimding me about it!
I’m sure it’s not isolated to the UK either, it’s nothing short of a catastrophe and against human nature. I isolated myself inside for many many years due to depression and now that I’m spending more and more time outside, just literally going outside and sitting and breathing and soaking it all in for some time, makes a massive difference in all aspects of health mental and physical.
That makes sense for me. Weekends are often consumed by catching up with various errands and chores, as well as hopefully at least something fun. During the week loads of us work full time. Sure, there’s time in the evenings for some of the year, but for a decent chunk of it darkness sets in before work is over.
Fitting in an hour of being in nature, three times per week? That’s a big ask, I suspect.
3 hours a week in nature is quite a lot for most people tbf. Vast majority live in towns and cities and have to go a long way to find what they might consider “nature”.
So 1.5h for sat and sun. That’s still a lot.
I work in a place where i can always take a nature walk for lunch, so that’s 5h. Outside of that, this weekend i spent 2h walking at a beach, so I’m below average on outside of work time.
