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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

When I give the best of me, that becomes my legacy.

God answers every prayer timely

The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

There's no way up but down.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.