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

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.

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.

A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.

My men are my money.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.