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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

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

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Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

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This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.

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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.

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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 own.

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Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

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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 things considered.

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