In Nature, A Child Finds

All Spiritual Life Begins With A Sense Of Wonder, And Nature Is A Window Into That Wonder.

Research Suggests That Exposure To The Natural World - Including Nearby Nature In Cities - Helps Improve Human Health, Well-being, And Intellectual Capacity In Ways That Science Is Only Recently Beginning To Understand.

What If More And More Parents, Grandparents And Kids Around The Country Band Together To Create Outdoor Adventure Clubs, Family Nature Networks, Family Outdoor Clubs, Or Green Gyms? What If This Approach Becomes The Norm In Every Community?

I Do Not Mean To Imply That The Good Old Days Were Perfect. But The Institutions And Structure--the Web--of Society Needed Reform,not Demolition. To Have Cut The Institutional And Community Strands Without Replacing Them With New Ones Proved To Be A Form Of Abuse To One Generation And To The Next. For So Many Americans, The Tragedy Was Not In Dreaming That Life Could Be Better; The Tragedy Was That The Dreaming Ended.

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.