In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

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.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me

And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.