The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.

Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.

Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.