Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

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.

[God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

Scary with you is better than scary without you

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.