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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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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I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.
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Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
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I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
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Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.
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In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.
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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.
