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Abbey, Edward,
17

About Looking
(Berger),
297

Active Living Research Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
32
,
311

Adams, Ansel,
103

adventure playgrounds,
170
,
263
–264

advertising, nature used in,
62

Afoot and Afield
guides,
130
,
164

Age of Missing Information, The
(McKibben),
68

agility,
49

agriculture,
see
farms air-conditioning,
57
–58

air pollution, indoor,
131
–132

Aligata, Justin,
193
–194

Alliance for Childhood,
137

American Academy of Pediatrics,
120

American Demographics
,
123

American Forests,
269

American Forests
,
172

American Historical Association,
17

American Horticultural Society,
219

American Institutes for Research,
208

American Insurance Association,
241

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
,
46

American Psychiatric Association,
44
,
101

American Psychological Society,
104

American Society of Naturalists Symposium,
143

amphetamines,
101

anger,
49

animal-rights movement,
21
,
24
,
195

animals

birding,
174
,
197
–198

companionship of,
297
,
298

fishing and hunting,
20
,
24
,
191
–195,
295
–296,
315
–316

hyperintellectualized perception of,
19
,
23
–24,
133
–134,
296

pets,
45
,
297

wild, in urban/suburban areas,
19
,
24
–25,
130
,
131
,
249
–250

wildlife viewing,
196
–200

zoopolis,
246
–251,
257
,
267
–269

animism,
298
–299,
301

anthropomorphism,
297
–298

antidepressants,
49
–50

anxiety,
49
,
51

Architecture Week
,
257

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
302

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum,
267

art education,
137
–138

Associated Press,
64

Association for Experiential Education,
209

attachment to nature,
156
–158,
309

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),
100
–102

medications for,
101
,
108

nature as therapy for,
3
,
35
,
100
–101,
102
–112,
264

attention-restoration theory,
103
–105,
109
,
218

ATVs (all-terrain vehicles),
139
–141

Atwood, John,
194

Austin, Texas,
262

Austria,
120

autism,
45
–46

cultural,
64
–67

automobiles,
63
–64,
119

commuting to work,
119

Back Country Land Trust,
232

back-to-the-land movement, new,
274
–287,
313

backyard nature, introducing child to,
170
–175

Baden-Powell, Lord,
156

Bainbridge Island,
231
–232

balance,
49

Baldwin, Neil,
90
–91

Banegas, Larry,
233

Bartholomew, Mel,
215
–217

Bayside Village, British Columbia,
285

Beard, Daniel C.,
15
–16,
18
,
19

Beardsley, John,
61
–62,
246
–247

Beatley, Timothy,
25
–26,
251
,
252
,
253
–254,
256
,
257
–258