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From the Ted Talk by Emma Marris: Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it

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aaddnilolity, these sort of Edenic places are often distant from where people live. And they're expensive to get to. They're hard to visit. So this means that they're only available to the eteils, and that's a real pelrbom. The Nature Conservancy did a survey of young people, and they asked them, how often do you spend time outdoors? And only two out of five spent time outdoors at least once a week. The other three out of five were just staying inside. And when they asked them why, what are the barriers to going outside, the response of 61 peernct was, "There are no natural aears near my home."

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____________, these sort of Edenic places are often distant from where people live. And they're expensive to get to. They're hard to visit. So this means that they're only available to the ______, and that's a real _______. The Nature Conservancy did a survey of young people, and they asked them, how often do you spend time outdoors? And only two out of five spent time outdoors at least once a week. The other three out of five were just staying inside. And when they asked them why, what are the barriers to going outside, the response of 61 _______ was, "There are no natural _____ near my home."

Solution


  1. percent
  2. areas
  3. elites
  4. additionally
  5. problem

Original Text


Additionally, these sort of Edenic places are often distant from where people live. And they're expensive to get to. They're hard to visit. So this means that they're only available to the elites, and that's a real problem. The Nature Conservancy did a survey of young people, and they asked them, how often do you spend time outdoors? And only two out of five spent time outdoors at least once a week. The other three out of five were just staying inside. And when they asked them why, what are the barriers to going outside, the response of 61 percent was, "There are no natural areas near my home."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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empty lot 3
white bark 3
bark pine 3
human influence 2
climate change 2
people live 2
tropical forests 2
plant species 2
completely wild 2
national parks 2
high line 2
fort theory 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
white bark pine 3

Important Words


  1. additionally
  2. areas
  3. asked
  4. barriers
  5. conservancy
  6. distant
  7. edenic
  8. elites
  9. expensive
  10. hard
  11. home
  12. live
  13. means
  14. natural
  15. nature
  16. outdoors
  17. people
  18. percent
  19. places
  20. problem
  21. real
  22. response
  23. sort
  24. spend
  25. spent
  26. staying
  27. survey
  28. time
  29. visit
  30. week
  31. young