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

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

The future will belong to the nature-smart.

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children; it's even better if the adult and child learn about nature together. And it's a lot more fun.

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

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.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.