Quotes About Nature Deficit Disorder

#1. Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illness. This disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

Richard Louv

#2. It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

Richard Louv

#3. I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

Magdi Yacoub

#4. But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Bodhidharma

#5. It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct of hospitality as because she could not sustain life except in a crowd.

Edith Wharton

#6. Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

Laozi

#7. I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.

Sarah Sutton

#8. This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

Grace Lee Boggs

#9. Life begins with pregnancy. Fuck 40.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.

Joel Osteen

#11. Waiting for one's execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did. Jesus even dragged his cross half way to Golgotha. I think he would have nailed himself to the cross if he had to.

Stefan Emunds

#12. I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

Marianne Faithfull

#13. I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

Joseph Stiglitz

#14. A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

Radhanath Swami