Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature therapy, as you do for the latest antidepressant pharmaceuticals. But parents, educators, and health workers need to know what a useful antidote to emotional and physical stress nature can be. Especially now.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.

No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.