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Children do better physically and emotionally when they are in green spaces, benefiting from the positive feelings, stress reduction, and attention restoration nature engenders.

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To describe what many of us believe are the human costs of alienation from nature: diminished use of the senses, a rising rate of myopia, child and adult obesity, Vitamin D deficiency, and other maladies

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Experiences in the world appear to offer great benefits to psychological and physical heal and the ability to learn, for children and adults.

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One reason for this is the risk-taking inherent in outdoor play, which plays an important role in child development

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A child's executive function is a better predictor of success in school than IQ- without play it is at risk

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If children are given the opportunity to experience nature, even in simple ways, interaction and engagement follow quite naturally

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When parents rediscover their sense of wonder, so do most kids

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Any green space will provide some benefit to mental and physical well-being---- it doesn't have to be the wild.

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It's never too early or too late to teach children or adults to appreciate and connect with the outdoors.

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While many schools districts are going toward less physical movement and more testing, a counter trend is growing, toward school gardens, natural play areas, getting their kids out of the classroom.

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We need to incorporate nature education and knowledge of its positive benefits into the training that every teacher receives

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Programs that infuse education with direct experience, especially in nature, have the greatest impact on children.

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We're seeing new appreciation for these issues among parents, educators, pediatricians, mayors and others.

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We also see the emergence of biophilic design of our homes and workplaces, reconciliation ecology and human-nature social capital, restorative homes and businesses, eco-psychology and other forms of nature therapy.

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We see more citizen naturalists, nature-based schools, the Slow Food and simplicity movements, organic gardening, urban agriculture, vanguard ranching, and other forms of new agrarianism

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there's more hope in the air, if you look for it.