The Real Cultural War Is

Now, My Tree-climbing Days Long Behind Me, I Often Think About The Lasting Value Of Those Early, Deliciously Idle Days. I Have Come To Appreciate The Long View Afforded By Those Treetops. The Woods Were My Ritalin. Nature Calmed Me, Focused Me, And Yet Excited My Senses.

If We Desire A Kinder Nation, Seeing It Through The Eyes Of Children Is An Eminently Sensible Endeavor: A City That Is Pro-child,for Example, Is Also A More Humane Place For Adults.

To Take Nature And Natural Play Away From Children May Be Tantamount To Withholding Oxygen.

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.

Increasingly The Evidence Suggests That People Benefit So Much From Contact With Nature That Land Conservation Can Now Be Viewed As A Public Health Strategy.