Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.
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 health of the Earth are inseparable.
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).
We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints. . . and gods.
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.