Quotes About Children

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

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.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.