I don't think that getting in touch with nature is necessarily what is important. What's missing in our society is a sense of community. The idea of looking to nature as a way to gain perspective- I don't think kids today get it. Most of the time when people talk about that now, it embodies an obsession with individual survival and the abomination of "survival of the fittest" (Social Darwinism to be exact) that merely makes people more obsessed with escapism and anti-socialism. Is it nature that causes it? No. It's a reflection of our decline into narcissism and compartmentalization.

So while I can appreciate a desire to get people back into nature... I don't think it's a solution. The core failure of our society today is the death of community... and that perverts everything- nature included.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside