We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

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'm half way to Heaven and half way to Hell with each breath I take in this mortal shell.

Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back!

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.