"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."

-- Richard Louv

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“There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.”

Source : "Biographical Memoirs" edited by Darleane C. Hoffman, (p. 252), 2000.
“The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.”
“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster
“I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.”

Source : "Natalie Zea of The Following". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.
“The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.”
“Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.”
“A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.”
“I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.”

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