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

Use all of your senses.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.

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.

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

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.