Christian Science Monitor: Scientific studies and cautionary reports have their role. But getting out into nature makes us love it.
A little girl is encouraged to play in a tide pool at her grandparents seaside home. The calm rocky pool becomes for her a microcosm of all the vast ocean. It is a world of tiny mussels, clams, and hermit crabs. Its seaweed sways with the tide. Years later she becomes a lover of bird-watching and nature walks and an advocate for protecting nature.
Most people can probably think of a similar...