An Environment-based Education Movement--at All Levels Of

In Medieval Times, If Someone Displayed The Symptoms We Now Identify As Boredom, That Person Was Thought To Be Committing Something Called Acedia, A 'dangerous Form Of Spiritual Alienation' -- A Devaluing Of The World And Its Creator.

There Is A Real World, Beyond The Glass, For Children Who Look, For Those Whose Parents Encourage Them To Truly See.

Nature Is Imperfectly Perfect, Filled With Loose Parts And Possibilities, With Mud And Dust, Nettles And Sky, Transcendent Hands-on Moments And Skinned Knees.

There Is Another Possibility: Not The End Of Nature, But The Rebirth Of Wonder And Even Joy.

The Woods Were My Ritalin. Nature Calmed Me, Focused Me, And Yet Excited My Senses.