As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.

May the Lord direct your life’s journey.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.

Love is an infinite sky!

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.