Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

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

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.