Adventurous Quote by Michaela Strachan

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

— Greg McKeown

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.…

— Richard Louv

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

— Viola Spolin

“Ideally play is joyful and childlike, a physically and psychologically healthy exercise for both people and dogs. Psychologists and spiritual counselors advise us all…

— Patricia B. McConnell

“I have gathered and analyzed thousands of case studies that I call play histories. I have found that remembering what play is all about…

— Stuart Brown

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

— Frank Caplan

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in…

— Susanna Miller

“I have gathered and analyzed thousands of case studies that I call play histories. I have found that remembering what play is all about…

— Stuart Brown

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith