Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter

We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

Don’t let hatred control you, no matter what others do that causes [anger]. You would only become guilty of the same sin that afflicts them, and nothing would be solved.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.