A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level.

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

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

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

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.

We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.