Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.

The future will belong to the nature-smart.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.