Lorenzo’s thesis links everyday restoration and more intense transcendent experience across three correlational studies. The first examines small urban squares and shows that vegetation, preference, social interaction and time spent are associated with perceived restoration. The second compares remembered restorative and transcendent experiences, identifying person–environment compatibility as a shared dimension while locating exceptionality as distinctive to transcendence. The third moves into a protected natural area, comparing walking itineraries characterised by homogeneous or contrasting landscape elements; contrasting views generate greater awe, absorption predicts awe, and awe is associated with improved affective wellbeing. The thesis therefore moves from urban micro-nature to memory and then to embodied routes, progressively thickening exposure as an environmental relation. Its methodological limitation—explicitly acknowledged—is that all three studies are correlational. Its future agenda is correspondingly temporal and relational: longer-term wellbeing, community scales, collective restoration and interdisciplinary indicators capable of linking psychological experience to ecosystem and health frameworks.
