Richard Louv Quotes

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

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• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Credit

• My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Inspires
  • Motto

• Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Point

• The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Women
  • Step
  • The Lord

• There is good and bad in everyone.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Profound

• The revolution starts at the bottom.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Revolution
  • Bottom
  • Starts

• Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • I Think
  • Planning
  • Master

• It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Life
  • Family
  • Destroying

• He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.

  

  Leslie Earl Maxwell
  • God

• I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Deceived

• In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.

  

  William Beebe
  • Attention
  • Water
  • Eye

• Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Decision
  • Choices

• Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

  

  Walter Rodney
  • Revolution
  • Appearance
  • Dramatic

• You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

  

  Caspar David Friedrich
  • Society
  • Hate
  • Avoid

• We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Knows
  • Protect