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Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

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

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

One of the main benefits of spending time in nature is stress reduction.

Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

Freud regarded childhood as a time in which our lowest, most animalistic impulses are strongest.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Nature can help people recover from "normal psychological wear and tear" -

The more we know, superficially, the less we penetrate, vertically.

For the young, food is from Venus; farming is from Mars

Going out into nature was one outlet that I had, which truly allowed me to calm down and not think or worry.

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

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.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

While outdoor activities in general help, settings with trees and grass are the most beneficial.

If you can't live in the land you love, love the land you're in.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

Isolated patches of wild land are valuable to know, as are isolated people.

You can solve any large or complex problem by breaking it down into smaller, simpler problems.

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

Spare time in the garden, either digging, setting out, or weeding; there is no better way to preserve your health.

And old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.

Nature was still out there. There was less of it, to be sure, but it was there just the same.

I played around our yard some and talked to the fence posts, sung songs and made the weeds sing ... - WOODY GUTHRIE

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

In the meantime, relax. Take a break. Look at the clouds. Listen to the wind. Let the birds do the heavy lifting. A

The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature
the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing ...

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

Other species help children develop empathy.

Though we often see ourselves as separate from nature, humans are also part of that wildness.

Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses.

Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it. Nature offers healing for a child living in a destructive family or neighborhood.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

You probably learned from your failures more than from success.

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

Thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can even be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorders and other maladies.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

Just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

To me, still being considered a kid, it can't be too much to ask. We should have the same rights as adults did when they were young.

Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.

Wilson defines biophilia as the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.

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.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

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

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

Use all of your senses.

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

Nature offers a well from which many, famous or not, draw a creative sense of pattern and connection.

This principle holds that a reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

We need the tonic of wilderness. - Henry David Thoreau

Nature - the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful - offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot.

I have a soft spot in my heart for tree houses, which have always imparted certain magic and practical knowledge.

It was frightening and wonderful to surrender to the wind's power.

As we grow more separate from nature, we continue to separate from one another physically.

No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

Quality of life isn't measured only by what we gain, but also by what we trade for it.

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

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

For a new generation, nature is more abstraction than reality.

Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.