The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

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.

Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali.

Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves.

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!

Abundance flourishes in a grateful heart; gratitude is the secret of love.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right.

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!