We both grew up in an era and an environment that was conducive to playing outdoors. Perhaps that was because of the absence of television and certainly before cell phones and digital games. We have always looked upon our experiences in the out of doors as a “given” and not anything unique. That’s all changed---especially for the urban population. On the subject of nature, as we like to write about each month, we often hear how we must do certain things to preserve and protect things in nature. We hear that native plants, clear running streams, all the natural components of the out of doors need our help to survive. Because of population growth and land development, there is no doubt that is true. Then we happened on the comment by a conservationist which went something- like this: “We need nature as much as nature needs us”. So, for this newsletter, we did some research into that concept and here is what we found: Children are increasingly "contained"