"Broad-based public support for dealing with global environmental challenges requires that people connect to their interdependence with nature. Studies in environmental psychology have shown that ecologically impoverished metropolitan areas add to an increasing ‘environmental generational amnesia’ among city dwellers. Urban people that do not experience nature early and regularly are less likely to develop sentiments to motivate stewardship of ecosystem services. In this context, planning for sustainability needs to take green spaces seriously into account in urban landscape designs and consider that the places where urban people live and work should offer meaningful opportunities for interacting with nature"