The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

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.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.