Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

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.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

My Spanish is coming along, I understand everything. I've been working on becoming more confident when speaking.

If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them Read them and read them again

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

The difference between Selling and Helping is just two letters.

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

Dream big but think small.

The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.