Richard Louv Quotes
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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To survive is to win.
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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
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I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.
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I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.
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I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.
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Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category.
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My favorite memories were with my dad, throwing a football around when he came home from work. As long as kids are having fun, that's the biggest deal at the end of the day.
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I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.
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Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.
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Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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It takes a smart man to play dumb.
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I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.
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Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.
