"nature outing" is a perfectly acceptable term in written English.
You can use it anytime you want to refer to a short outing into nature, such as an outdoor hike, a picnic in a park, or a beach day. For example, "We are going on a nature outing this weekend and plan to spend the day hiking in the mountains."
In fact, the researchers noted that people who had recently experienced stressful life events like a serious illness, death of a loved one, or unemployment had the greatest mental boost from a group nature outing.
As momentum builds and more cities act, we can imagine a future where people in all a city's neighborhoods enjoy a daily nature outing because nature is everywhere, but this future will take lots more work to achieve.
"You can even try to combine your nature outings with your regular exercise by power walking or cycling outdoors," says Dr. Strauss.
But a childhood spent on nature outings with his father, Otto, had also instilled in Mayr a passion for bird-watching.
In a separate study, also published in the journal Emotion, researchers looked at the effects of more serene nature outings on 119 UC Berkeley undergraduates as they journaled about their daily experiences over the course of two weeks.
Nature outings explore the Great Marsh in Barnstable ($12) with the Audubon Society, (508) 349-2615, on May 10; Nauset Beach in Chatham on May 11; and the Nauset Marsh in Orleans by kayak on May 16, 17 and 18, (508) 255-2620, and www.goose.com/coastalwaters.com/coastalwaters
This was camping New York-style, a warm-weather tradition adapted to a concrete metropolis with many parks but few that encourage overnight guests — where roughing it generally means no hot water in one's apartment and tents are more closely associated with political protests than nature outings.
Ian Rippon, 56, of Norfolk, England, first came to Findhorn Foundation at the end of 2000 to participate in one of the community's "Experience Weeks," a seven-day program that includes meditation, sacred dance, nature outings as well as working alongside community members in areas such as the gardens, kitchen and dining room.
Night Nature With three outings on the schedule, this is a good week to see what Mother Nature has to offer when the sun goes down.
It was natural to wonder if the unusual nature of Tuesday's outing — from awful to overpowering — somehow sprang from off-field stress.
Over-leaning a stone wall, stirring a pair of mute swans to eloquence, the combined hisses trigger a localized squall — an infectious hyperactivity that makes an outing in "nature" an addictive spree, a confrontation with beauty incarnate: the swans disdainful of such mockery, glaring back down their beaks at parents whose cygnets are floundering in the deep.
