The importance of natural spaces and positive connections to nature in the field of Early Care and Learning is well documented. It would be beneficial to the field to explore a possible relationship between attachment to a physical place, natural or urban, as a child, and secure emotional attachment, as an adult. This questionnaire research project adds to the discussion on the correlation of place and emotional attachment. The results of this analysis indicated (a) there is a relationship between emotional attachment and physical place; and (b) females were found to have stronger physical place attachment than males.
