As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

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.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

Leave it to the Americans to use love as a motivational tool while challenging insects to declare whether they are with you or against you.

The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.