There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

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.

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

Which came first — the observer or the particle?

You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.