Use all of your senses.

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

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

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.