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

As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

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

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

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.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.