If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect.

The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.

I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.

If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.