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.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

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

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

I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.

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).

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.