Natural Play Quotes

• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

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  John Muir

  Life   Strength   Beauty  

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

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  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Boys   Play   Different  

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

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  William Shakespeare

  Death   Suicide   Dream  

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

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  William Shakespeare

  Death   Sleep   Heart  

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

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  Michel de Montaigne

  War   Book   Exercise  

  "The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne".

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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational   Life   Happiness  

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

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  Richard Louv

  Nature   Children   Oxygen  

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because we intend it to shrink, but because time is consumed by multiple, invisible forces; because our culture currently places so little value on natural play.

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  Richard Louv

  Meaningful   Play   Parent  

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• Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

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  Richard Louv

  Nature   Children   Moving  

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.148, Atlantic Books Ltd

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