To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

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.

The greatest foe of human is his mighty wisdom.

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

One should mature over 20 years.

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She's great, she's amazing, I think she's one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?

I paint in order not to cry.

I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

Bouncing in the club where the heat is on, All night on the beach till the break of dawn