In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
Category: Quotes
Nature Is…
‘Nature is the art of God’
Dante
We Were All Meant To Be Naturalists…
“We were all meant to be naturalists, each in his degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.”
Charlotte Mason
Home Education Vol 1. Ch2: Out-Of-Door Life For The Children p.61
Spring Was Moving…
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him…
Kenneth Grahame
An Observant Child…
“An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.”
Charlotte Mason
Home Education Vol 1. Ch2: Out-Of-Door Life For The Children p.69
Give Your Child…
Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.
Charlotte Mason
If You Truly Love Nature…
if you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van Gogh
I Couldn’t Live…
I couldn’t live where there were no trees – something vital in me would starve.
L.M. Montgomery
Everybody Needs Beauty As Well As Bread…
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.
John Muir
Never Be Within Doors…
Never be within doors when you can rightly be without
~ Charlotte Mason