By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

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.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.