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

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.

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.

Stop trying to make everyone happy. You're not tequila.

My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.