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- We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet…
- Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are…
- The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially…
- An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to…
- Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.
- 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 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC…
- A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications…
- As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For…
- From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside…
- Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature…
- 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…
- 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.
- As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy…
- Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some…
- The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.
- Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.
- If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
- By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.
- The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and…
- Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the rewards that await…
- To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.
- Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.
- Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.
- Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the…
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon