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

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

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

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.