I love quotes about children and nature, don’t you?
They make my heart feel good, inspire me to be a better mom, and help me to think deeply about my beliefs. You know what I love about quotes the most?
I’ll tell you shortly.
Feel energized and first, get up. andCheck out these inspiring nature quotes to inspire your kids to get back in the natural world.
Children and nature quotes for parents
“Encourage your child to have muddy, grassy or sandy feet by the end of each day, that’s the childhood they deserve.” ~Penny Whitehouse
“ChildrenMore than ever, people need to have the opportunity to move around the world. This includes bicycling, jumping rope, and stream hopping. andFort building. It’s this engagement between limbs of the body andTrue balance can be found in the bones of earth and centeredness emerge.” ~ David Sobel
“To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who will walk their own verdant, winding path.” ~Nicolette Sowder
“Restore balance. “Restore balance. andAdditional activities included. It’s time to add a pinch of adventure, a sprinkle of sunshine and a big handful of outdoor play.” ~ Penny Whitehouse
“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; andLet them run when the grass in the meadows has become wet from dew andTrample it with your bare feet. Let them rest peacefully under a tree, when it invites you to. and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.” ~ Maria Montessori
“Playing together in nature is as much about us as it is about the child. ChildrenHave fun celebrating and be themselves, while we are reminded of our inner child – the essence of who we are.” Nicolette Sowder
“Our challenge isn’t so much to teach children about the natural world, but to find ways to sustain the instinctive connections they already carry.” ~ Terry Krautwurst
It is important to teach children how to feel the earth and the rain. We also need to show them how to see the sun rise. andNight fall – to take care. John Cleal
“Don’t wait until your child’s school understands how important green time is for their growing minds. Outdoor play is the best way to get your child’s attention. and real-world learning.” ~Penny Whitehouse
“ChildrenYou will grow up knowing how decrepit the environment is. Grow strawberries, make wild remedies, paint the sunrise. Show them proof that for every act of destruction, they can sow a seed, however small, of beauty.” ~Nicolette Sowder
“It’s time to return to childhood, to simplicity, to running andAscent andTo smile in the sun, to feel happiness rather than being trained for a life of happiness. It’s time to let children be children again. .” ~ LR KNOST
“If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.” ~David Sobel
“When children play in natural spaces, they’re far more likely to invent their own games than in more structured settings – a key factor in becoming self-directed and inventive adults later in life” ~Richard Louv
“Encourage your kids to look for nature everywhere you go. It’s the weed breaking through the pavement, It’s the leaves forming small clumps along the side of the road. It’s the sky at any given time of the day or night. It’s the wind doing what it Likes to your hair. Look around, it won’t take long to find it.” ~Penny Whitehouse
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet andThe winds want to play with your hair. ~Kahli Gran
“The ultimate gift we can give the world is to grow our tiny humans into adult humans who are independent thinkers, compassionate doers, conscious questioners, radical innovators, and passionate peacemakers. Our world doesn’t need more adults who blindly serve the powerful because they’ve been trained to obey authority without question. We need more adults who question the power structures in our world. and challenge and hold the powerful accountable.” ~ L.R. Knost
“Every child needs a parent, grandparent or friend who will say let’s go it’s time for an adventure.” ~Penny Whitehouse
“What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth…?” ~ Theodore Roszak
Sad child? Nature. Cranky child? Nature. Is your child bored? Nature. You’re welcome ~Penny Whitehouse
“As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver andTo breathe under us, to smell a hundred different mud scents and listen unselfconsciously to the soughing of the trees.” ~Valerie Andrews
“The Mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime” ~Author unknown
Although our children are safer than ever before, parents are still afraid. Fear of injury, strangers and kidnappers, as well as lawsuits and nature. Fear that all our children will fall behind if they don’t have as many enriching activities as the next kid. We want our children to be confident and capable. andResilient adults require space. andPlay time andExplore the outside world freely. Let go of fear and realize that it’s still possible to give them a childhood akin to our own.” ~Linda Akeson McGurk
‘We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” ~Unknown
That is what I believe in for my child. andIt is important for a parent to be able to guide their child in the natural world. The seeds that will later yield knowledge are facts, andWisdom, then the emotions andThe soil in which seeds must grow is determined by the impressions that the senses make. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.” ~Rachel Carson
“Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves.” ~ Stephen Moss
“Without continuous hands-on experience, it is impossible for children to acquire a deep intuitive understanding of the natural world that is the foundation of sustainable development. ….A critical aspect of the present-day crisis in education is that children are becoming separated from daily experience of the natural world, especially in larger cities.” ~ Robin C. Moore andHerb H. Wong
“They’re not just playing in nature, they are: Learning, creating, sensing, believing, relaxing, exploring, observing, wondering, connecting, discovering, appreciating, understanding, experimenting…”~ Penny Whitehouse
“Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives.” ~Thomas Berry
“ChildrenWe are born with a sense for wonder. andAn affinity for the natural world. These values can be nurtured and developed into ecological literacy. and eventually into sustainable patterns of living.” ~Zenobia Barlow
“Teach children to be kind to everything that lives.” ~Unknown
“Let Nature be your teacher.” ~ William Wordsworth
“When little people are scared of something in nature, it’s our job to hold their hand andShow them its beauty and purpose.” ~Penny Whitehouse
“It’s a wondrous thing how the wild calms a child.” Unknown
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder … he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.” ~ Rachel Carson
“Let children walk with NatureLet them see the beauty of the blendings andCommunions of death andLife, their joyful inseparable oneness, as taught by woods and meadows, plains andMountains andStreams of our blessed star andThey will discover that death is not stingy at all. and as beautiful as life.” ~ John Muir
“Don’t just tell your children about the world, show them.” ~Penny Whitehouse
QuotesNature and children andEducation
“The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands on, exploring, in active relationship with life.” ~ Vince Gowman
“Anything you teach in an indoor classroom can be taught outdoors, often in ways that are more enjoyable for children.” ~ Cathy James
“Earth andSky, woods andFields and lakes andThe mountain, rivers andThe sea and ocean are great schoolmasters. and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” ~John Lubbock
“It is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts by nurturing their compassionate nature.” ~ Dalai Lama
“Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.” ~Paul Berg
“An environmental-based education movement—at all levels of education—will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration but a portal to the wider world.” ~ Richard Louv
“Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places they could not imagine.” ~Yawar Baig
Some other great quotes about children andNature
“When life gives you rain jump in muddy puddles.”~ Unknwown
“ChildrenThe world has a right for a child to have a childhood full of beauty, joy and adventure. andCompanionship. If the soil is rich in love and experience, they will be able to grow into ecological literacy. and good examples.”~Alan Dyer
“As children observe, reflect, record, and share nature’s patterns andThey participate in scientific rhythms andEcological awareness and problem solving and creativity.” ~Deb Matthews Hensley
“Let children walk with NatureLet them see the beauty of the blendings andCommunions of death andLife, their joyful inseparable oneness, as taught by woods and meadows, plains andMountains andStreams of our blessed star andThey will discover that death is not stingy at all. andAs beautiful as life. John Muir
“Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we want to save the environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.”~ Richard Louv
“If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs.” ~Nicolette Sowder
“Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas…during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe andMake conclusions about objects and events through simple, scientific investigations.” ~ Judith Roden
Nature speaks through the land in a unique way. We don’t have the patience or the quiet to fully listen to the story. ~Linda Hogan
“ChildrenNature is a part of our DNA. Dirt, water, and plants andSmall animals are attracted and hold children’s attention for hours, days, even a lifetime.”~Robin C. Moore andHerb H Wong
“Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves.” ~ Stephen Moss
“A child’s world is fresh andNeue andBeautiful and full of wonder andExcited. We are all cursed by the fact that our clear-eyed vision, our true instinct for beauty, has been dimmed for most of us. and even lost before we reach adulthood.” ~Rachel Carson
“ChildrenNaturalists are born. They are naturalists who explore the world using all their senses and experiment in the environment. and communicate their discoveries to those around them.” ~The Audubon Nature Preschool
Why are quotes so important?
Why do I regularly seek out nature quotes, or write my own when I can’t find any that relate specifically to me as a busy mother?
They hold me accountable. andThey help me to get outside with my kids.
Words have meaning andCan help you to act. Reading quotes about children andOne simple prompt is nature that inspires me to give my kids the childhood they deserve.
What important quotes about children have I forgotten? andWhat is nature like? Comment below.
