Richard Louv Quotes
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
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If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.
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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.
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I want to do something that can support all the people in Korea and the world who see us and are inspired to do their own thing.
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I'm just a story teller.
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Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
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Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.