Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

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.

Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

Men are never brave, are they?

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

This movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is as much for the general market as it is for Latino audiences. That's a really exciting prospect.

A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.