It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce reso….

What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, fami….

By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature..

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….

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..

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

From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking….

Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in th….

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is ….

We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped b….

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a ha….

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..

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness..

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world..

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

A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous ….

We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet paren….

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of inc….

As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emot….

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

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wo….