The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

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.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.

Every second of every moment should be cherished. Life is beautiful

When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?