Trip to Muir Woods

I volunteered to drive a group of Taiwan Exchange students to Muir Woods. Even though they were 5th and 6th graders, they all had cameras and some had iPods. They basically never stopped talking and seemed much more interested in shopping than large Redwood trees. It appears that "Nature Deficit Disorder" is universal. Gone are the days of digging up bugs or climbing trees. Now everything is an electronic gadget, a new videogame, music players, internet site or cellphone. Reality is now man-made.