Nature Is One Of The Best Antidotes

Studies Of Children In Playgrounds With Both Green Areas And Manufactured Play Areas Found That Children Engaged In More Creative Forms Of Play In The Green Areas.

Today's Children Are Living A Childhood Of Firsts. They Are The First Daycare Generation; The First Truly Multicultural Generation; The First Generation To Grow Up In The Electronic Bubble, The Environment Defined By Computers And New Forms Of Television; The First Post-sexual Revolution Generation; The First Generation For Which Nature Is More Abstraction Than Reality; The First Generation To Grow Up In New Kinds Of Dispersed, Deconcentrated Cities, Not Quite Urban, Rural, Or Suburban.

How Can Our Kids Really Understand The Moral Complexities Of Being Alive If They Are Not Allowed To Engage In Those Complexities Outdoors?

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.

Each Of Us-adult Or Child-must Earn Nature's Gift By Knowing Nature Directly, However Difficult It May Be To Glean That Knowledge In An Urban Environment.