Beauty, Nature and Wellness

02/18/2022

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
Henry David Thoreau

Ruth Wilson provides an article that forms the basis of a new Exchange Reflections, “Beauty, Nature and Wellness,” that raises provocative topics for discussion around the ways experiences with beauty and nature can support wellness in both children and adults.

Wilson offers research findings that show “children’s physical response to beauty includes increased cerebral activity which contributes to their improved health and well-being.”

The Reflections asks early childhood practitioners to ponder questions about how to define beauty in an early childhood setting, whether “being outside” is the same thing as “connecting with nature,” and what it might mean to realize “we are part of the natural world versus separate from it.”

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