"Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts……" — Richard Louv
"Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees."
—
Richard Louv
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
98 Quotes by Richard Louv
Richard Louv has 98 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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…
-
In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing…
-
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…
-
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way,…
-
Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In…
-
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you…
-
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…
-
One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if…
-
An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical…
See all 98 quotes by Richard Louv »
More Dust Quotes
This quote is filed under Dust Quotes,
one of 1,193 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
-
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
— Diane Ackerman
-
I'm full of dust and guitars.
— Syd Barrett
-
There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust…
— Standing Bear
-
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
-
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
— Ambrose Bierce
-
You either make dust or eat dust.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
-
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
— Lord Byron
-
We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going…
— Herman Cain
-
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
— Italo Calvino
-
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the…
— George Carlin
-
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
— Thomas Carlyle
See all 1,193 Dust Quotes »