Quotes About Disconnection From Nature

#1. A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level.

Richard Louv

#2. A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.

Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus

#3. It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Hu Shih

#4. When I meet somebody I want to leave a better impression than when I got there.

Tim Tebow

#5. I miss her. I miss her as I'd miss my sight if I were suddenly blind. I miss her as a tree must miss its wealth of leaves come midwinter.

Carrie Anne Noble

#6. Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

David Ogilvy

#7. I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

Amy Grant

#8. Though the gospel amnesty which grace proclaims makes no exceptions, for Divine grace has no limits, there are limits to the time within which the amnesty avails. And if sinners despise grace there is nothing for them but judgment, stern and inexorable.

Robert Anderson

#9. Love is such a force onto itself that it doesn't wreck havoc when it beats for others.

Donna Lynn Hope

#10. You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time.

Jimmy Carter

#11. What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else,
when the result is to wind up so far behind?

Philip Roth

#12. Sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame.

Gillian Flynn

#13. Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

Fisher Stevens

#14. Imagination is the mad boarder.

Nicolas Malebranche

#15. News is only the first rough draft of history.

Alan Barth

#16. Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

Pat Conroy