"If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, â€œthe more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings."

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Source : "Fighting Climate Change Through ‘Nature Connectedness’" by Nancy Shulins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

David Sobel

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tree Quotes

“It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
“Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.”
“Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“No one is accountable anymore for anything.”

Source : "The Glenn Beck Show", www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2009.
“I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.”
“When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.”
“Women's love is for their men, not for their children.”

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