Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

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

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

An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to children's concept and perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ability to discern true danger

As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.