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• The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.
• We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come…
• In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called…
• What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
• Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart.…
• Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our…
• Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones…
• Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the…
• The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.
• The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in…
• One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is…
• An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological…

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