Frederick William Faber Quotes

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Nature was my kindergarten.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

Exposing children to nature, especially at an early age, keeps them grounded.

I'm always happy when I'm outside working in the company of nature.

I want to make the school-garden movement work.

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.