At the end of the day the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Always kiss your children goodnight even if they're already asleep.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

That's all about the natural order of things the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Man is the unnatural animal the rebel child of nature and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

All my life through the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Behold the child by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle tickled with a straw.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Life has loveliness to sell all beautiful and splendid things blue waves whitened on a cliff soaring fire that sways and sings and children's faces looking up holding wonder like a cup.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected momentary and fleeting yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.