How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

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

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

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.

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.