There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

Use all of your senses.

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.