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If A Child Never Sees The Stars, Never Has Meaningful Encounters With Other Species, Never Experiences The Richness Of Nature, What Happens To That Child?

Today's Children Are Living A Childhood Of Firsts. They Are The First Daycare Generation; The First Truly Multicultural Generation; The First Generation To Grow Up In The Electronic Bubble, The Environment Defined By Computers And New Forms Of Television; The First Post-sexual Revolution Generation; The First Generation For Which Nature Is More Abstraction Than Reality; The First Generation To Grow Up In New Kinds Of Dispersed, Deconcentrated Cities, Not Quite Urban, Rural, Or Suburban.

Mothers Tend To Be More Direct. Fathers Talk To Other Fathers About Their Kids More Metaphorically. It's A Different Way Of Communication.

By Letting Our Children Lead Us To Their Own Special Places We Can Rediscover The Joy And Wonder Of Nature.

Passion Is Lifted From The Earth Itself By The Muddy Hands Of The Young; It Travels Along Grass-stained Sleeves To The Heart. If We Are Going To Save Environmentalism And The Environment, We Must Also Save An Endangered Indicator Species: The Child In Nature.