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

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

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).

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

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.