"If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play."

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What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

— Richard Louv