By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because we intend it to shrink, but because time is consumed by multiple, invisible forces; because our culture currently places so little value on natural play.

Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

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).

When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.