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Use all of your senses.
Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.
The future will belong to the nature-smart.
Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.
Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.
Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.
Other species help children develop empathy.
Green exercise improves psychological health.
Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.
By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.
A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.
Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.
Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.
Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.
Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.
The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.
To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.
There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.
The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.
Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.
What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?
The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.
We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.
By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.
The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.
Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.
We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.
In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).
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.
This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
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.
No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.
Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.
As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.
Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.
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?