Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front o….
We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy..
When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almos….
The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need..
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity..
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the….
Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing..
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 ….
By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility..
There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see..
I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that….
Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying..
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the you….
Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale..
Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generat….
In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people….
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinn….
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health s….
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact..
Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty..
All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder..