Use all of your senses.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

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.

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

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

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.