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.

I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.