Children today — and many adults too — have less contact with the natural environment than any previous generation, this is despite all the evidence about the positive
impacts contact with nature brings to a child's education, health and wellbeing.
Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system and its
impact on society» is more likely to confront academics
with the immutable truths of human
nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.