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.

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

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.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.