Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.
Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.
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).
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.
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.