After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"
A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.
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'll get into conversations with other people, and all of a sudden they will say something that sparks that. . . either the titles to me, or just the conversation itself will spark an idea for a song.
I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.
One of the problems with sex education. . . is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.