Publisher's description: Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists to find ways for children to experience the natural world more deeply.

pt. I. The new relationship between children and nature. Gifts of nature ; The third frontier ; The criminalization of natural play -- pt. II. Why the young (and the rest of us) need nature. Climbing the tree of health ; A life of the senses : nature vs. the know-it-all state of mind ; The "eighth intelligence" ; The genius of childhood : how nature nurtures creativity ; Nature-deficit disorder and the restorative environment -- pt. III. The best of intentions : why Johnnie And Jeannie don't play outside anymore. Time and fear ; The bogeyman syndrome redux ; Don't know much about natural history : education as a barrier to nature ; Where will future stewards of nature come from? -- pt. IV. The nature-child reunion. Bringing nature home ; Scared smart : facing the bogeyman ; Telling turtle tales : using nature as a moral teacher -- pt. V. The jungle blackboard. Natural school reform ; Camp revival -- pt. VI. Wonder land : opening the fourth frontier. The education of Judge Thatcher : decriminalizing natural play ; Cities gone wild ; Where the wild things will be : a new back-to-the-land movement -- pt. VII. To be amazed. The spiritual necessity of nature for the young ; Fire and fermentation : building a movement ; While it lasts -- A field guide to Last child in the woods.