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.

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.

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 nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing.

He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?

Doesn’t it feel great when someone does something nice for you? Especially when you’re not expecting it? The irony is that they are getting as much joy by giving as you are by receiving.

The elderly are useless eaters.

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.