If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

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.

Ukitaka kujua maana halisi ya maisha yako kuwa tayari kufanya vitu vikubwa vitakavyohitaji nguvu ya Mungu kuvikamilisha – na kudumu katika maisha hayo kwa kafara ya maombi.

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.