Natural Play Quotes:

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

topic: Needs, Bread, Imperfect, Beautiful Nature, Soul Beauty

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

topic: Love, Suicide, Creativity, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

topic: Death, Sleep, Heart, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: "The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne".

topic: War, Book, Exercise, Drowsy, Natural Play

It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because we intend it to shrink, but because time is consumed by multiple, invisible forces; because our culture currently places so little value on natural play.

- Richard Louv

topic: Meaningful, Play, Parent, Consumed, Dreamtime

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

- Richard Louv

source: Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.148, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Children, Moving, Self Confidence, Seen And Unseen, Natural Play

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

- Richard Louv

topic: Nature, Children, Oxygen, Withholding, Natural Play

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

- Christina Hoff Sommers

topic: Boys, Play, Different, Little Boys, Natural Play