When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

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.

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?