Children's Active and Passive Interactions with Plants Influence Their Attitudes and Actions toward Trees and Gardening as Adults

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The Influence of Childhood (2012, background): “Lohr and Pearson-Mims (2005) found significant association of adult attitudes, actions toward natural entities such as trees, and nature-based practices like gardening with childhood nature experiences.”
Conservation Volunteers' Connection to Nature (2009, unknown): “…have found that nature activities in childhood are important in developing a concern about the environment ( Tanner, 1980 ; Chawla, 1999 ; Kals, Schumacher, & Montada, 1999 ; Bixler, Floyd, & Hammitt, 2002 ; Ewert, Place, & Sibthorp, 2005 ; Lohr & Pearson-Mims, 2005 ; Wells & Lekies, 2006 ).”
Plants have a chance: outdoor educational programmes alter students' knowledge and attitudes towards plants (2011, background): “Some evidences supported more positive attitudes towards cultivated plants in people who have or previously had a garden (Lohr and Pearson-Mims 2005; Fan[caron] ovi[caron] ová and Prokop 2010).”
Effect of frequency and mode of contact with nature on children's self-reported ecological behaviors (2015, unknown): “In concordance with previous studies (Lohr & Pearson-Mims, 2005; Wells & Lekies, 2006), activities such as picking fruits, planting seeds or taking care of vegetables improve with children's pro-environmental attitudes.”