These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

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

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

We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

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.