Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature, and higher education has placed less value on such disciplines as zoology……The times are right for the return of the amateur, twenty-first-century, citizen naturalist. To be a citizen naturalist is to take personal action, to both protect and participate in nature.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.