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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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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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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The United States construction industry is ready to digest this large increase in capacity. Regions with a vibrant economic base dominate the location of plant expansions and the related escalation in private, commercial, and public infrastructure construction will require additional materials.
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Snowden's revelations shocked the world and made it very clear why we need to have some way to look over those who look over us. With increasing terrorist attacks, security is critical, but not without any accountability or oversight.
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As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
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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.
