Most children today are hard-pressed to develop a sense of wonder, to induce what [Bernard] Berenson called the "spirit of place" while playing video games or trapped inside the house because of a fear of crime. Asked to name their special favorite places, children describe their room or an attic -- somewhere quiet. . . . So finding wonder outside of nature is surely possible. But electronics or the built environment do not offer the array of physical loose parts, nor the physical space to wander.
— Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods