Let the children walk in nature, by John Muir

As technology floods classrooms and homes, family rooms and bedrooms, I am thinking of children. Not that I believe technology is pernicious, it's not that.  However we, the adults, have the power of choice regarding how much, how often, even if we do not exercise it enough. But children have what is given to them. As I see little ones in the EAT room coming with a screen in their hands and minds, electronic sounds and lights, a still two dimensional world that misses three of the senses, smell, touch and taste...John Muir's simple statement comes to mind:

Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.”

John Muir from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf