Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

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.

This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.

HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.