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

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

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

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.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the rewards that await a family then it invites more nature into children's lives.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.