Close your eyes. Go on, just humour me for a moment and close your eyes. I'd like you to go back in time to either a specific or a general period in your childhood where you have particularly fond memories of play.
Think about those memories. Visualise them and make a mental note of what you are doing, what you are playing, who you are playing with, but most importantly, where you are playing.
In the many times I have carried out this simple reflective exercise with students I would say that about 75 per cent of play memory recall involves play in and around natural environments, or wild spaces.
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