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.

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.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Believe is an open door to the heavenly possibilities.

Some people succeed not because they have wealth and education, but because they have firm focus.

The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

Life: another day, another dolor.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.

The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.

Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.