Development Quote by Tara Parker-Pope

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital…

— Leo Buscaglia

There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it…

— Leo Buscaglia

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

— Sarah Lewis

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

— Laura Bush

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).

— Richard Louv

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really…

— Fred Rogers

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

— Boris Spassky

Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It…

— James L Hymes

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

— Bruno Bettelheim

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

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it…

— Brian Sutton-Smith