The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

This has been a covert preparation for an overt operation." - Rory in NEVER GO ALONE

As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

For me, everyone has many personas.

An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.

You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.

"Dollhouse" was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.