My next question, of course, was why the good bugs he had told me about weren't eating all of the bad ones. He thought for a moment and said that was a good question. I was lucky enough to have a farmer in my family, and my grandfather was an oracle of wisdom. He used conventional methods of farming, but helped me grow my gardens without chemicals. No one has to be an expert biologist or horticulturist to give their children insights on how nature works.
Nature excites their imaginations and feeds their tireless hunger for knowledge.
It also gets them out from in front of the bloody Nintendo machine. They get an opportunity to breathe in nature, just watch them grow. When my nephew Brandon was very young, he used to be fascinated by snails. He could watch them for hours. He shared his theories about snails and his insights were both hilarious and astute.