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.

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.

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

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider 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.

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.