When we divert & divest from nature, we suffer the consequences, and it’s making our society sicker than ever before. When you choose SMART anything, such as a Smart Phone, it’s actually the opposite of smart because it’s a diversion from natural. The Natural way is the only smart way. Nature is the answer to all of our problems! We need to experience a paradigm shift in how we live in the world because we currently live in ways that our toxic to ourselves, our environments, and all the species that also share the same environment with us. Nature deficiency rises in the winter as we begin spending more time indoors, especially in classrooms or hours on end zoom schooling. Because of reduced nature time in the winter, it’s extra important to make the most of any time spent outside!
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“The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
“Choose only one master: Nature.” ~ Rembrandt
“Rather than books and lectures, nature itself is children’s best teacher.” ~ Coffey
“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.” ~ Mark Twain
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.” ~ Aristotle
“All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.” ~ Aristotle
“When children become in contact with nature, they reveal their strength.” ~ Maria Montessori
“Compared to kids confined indoors, children who regularly play in nature show heightened motor control— including balance, coordination, and agility.” ~ Scott Sampson
“School rewards with a certificate; nature rewards with enlightenment.” ~ Michael Bassey Johnson, [Song of a Nature Lover]
“Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.” ~ Thomas Berry
“While our society is busy wondering and theorizing about what children need most, Mother Nature simply holds a space for the child to discover that for themselves.” ~ Nicolette Sowder
“Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves.” ~ Stephen Moss
“The best classroom and the richest cupboard is roofed only by the sky.” ~ Margaret McMillan
“Play in outdoor settings also exceeds indoor alternatives in fostering cognitive, emotional, and moral development.” ~ Scott D. Sampson
“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” ~ Plato
“The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
“It’s difficult to get too much time outside. As long as they’re wearing the right clothes and are safe. Keep them outside as long as possible.” ~ Dr. Amanda Gummer
“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~ Albert Einstein
“The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.” ~ Isaac Asimov, [The Caves of Steel]
“Nature is already as good as it can be. It cannot be improved upon. He who tries to redesign it, spoils it. He who tries to redirect it, misleads it.” ~ Lao Tsu
“The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.” ~ Peter Senge
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
"A child who is allowed to run free in a place that is natural will very quickly begin to look around for a special shelter. The interior framework of bushes is inspected and judged for it’s suitability to act as a fort. Trees, especially mature ones, provide towering castles, and the best climbing branches are claimed as “rooms.” ~ Richard Louv
“Remember as well, that children at play are insulated from the alarming world around them. Play is a sanctuary of safety. Play is also the original school, far more effective than anything society could possibly invent. Rather than try to make the home a school, it would be much more important in these times to make the home a true playground where Nature can take care of all of us. In true play, the engagement is in the activity, not the outcome. Most screen play does not qualify.” ~ Gordon Neufeld
“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child’s curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.” ~ Alice Miller
"Human society separates itself from a life close to nature, schooling becomes necessary. In nature, formal schooling has no function.” ~ Masanobu Fukuoka
“I would rather be amongst forest animals and the sounds of nature, than amongst city traffic and the noise of man.” ~ Anthony Douglas Williams [Inside the Divine Pattern]
Always strive to go natural…
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Natural Learning
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Natural Consequences
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Natural Living
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Natural Food is a hijacked phrase
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Natural Products
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Natural Environment, Natural Scenery, instead of Artificial concrete jungles
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Natural Medicine
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Natural Cures
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Natural Immunity = No Vaccines
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Natural Remedies
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Natural Treatments
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Natural Growth
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Natural Health
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Natural Resources
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Natural Building
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Natural Homes (Cob houses, Strawbale houses)
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Natural Beauty