Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.

Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering "What the heck is this!?"

I learned from Jurassic Park that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the future

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.

My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.