The purpose of this study is to research young children s attitude toward life, which is expressed through encounters with nature while engaging in free walking activity in the forest, field, and stream. The participants were 4 children aged 4-5, enrolled in the kindergarten annexed to N elementary school. It was located in rural area of Y–gun, Gyeonggi–do. Walking activities were numbered to 26 times during 16 weeks, from March 30th(Wed.) to July 15th(Fri.), 2011, in the forests, field, and stream not far from N kindergarten. Each activity took about 60 minutes either in the morning or in the afternoon. The children were given opportunity strolling in the nature, exploring living things, sharing thought and feeling through language and gestures and interacting with individual organism through five senses. To meet the validity and reliability of the qualitative study, data were collected based on triangulation method (Merriam, 1988/1994) through various means, such as transcription of recorded materials, children’s activity photos, research diary, kindergarten work diary, children’s works et al. Collected data were organized, classified, analyzed and interpreted. The result of this study is as follows: The attitude of young children toward life who have participated in the walking activity is indifferent to life , interactive with living things , playing together with individual organism , having new understanding on life , and cherishing and respecting life .