A Flower Is An Educated Weed.

Every Child Should Have Mud Pies, Grasshoppers, Water Bugs, Tadpoles, Frogs, Mud Turtles, Elderberries, Wild Strawberries, Acorns, Chestnuts, Trees To Climb. Brooks To Wade, Water Lilies, Woodchucks, Bats, Bees, Butterflies, Various Animals To Pet, Hayfields, Pine-cones, Rocks To Roll, Sand, Snakes, Huckleberries And Hornets; And Any Child Who Has Been Deprived Of These Has Been Deprived Of The Best Part Of Education.

Although I Went To College As A Youth, I Never Considered It Necessary To Steep Oneself In Academic Learning, In Order To Learn How To Think. I Welcome A Fair And Square, Open And Above-board Fight On Any Subject, Including This, But I Despise A Man Who Sneaks Around Under A Cloak Or Cover Of Any Society Or Clique To Strike His Blows.

Heredity Is Nothing But Stored Environment.

Do Not Feed Children On A Maudlin Sentimentalism Or Dogmatic Religion; Give Them Nature. Let Their Souls Drink In All That Is Pure And Sweet. Rear Them, If Possible, Amid Pleasant Surroundings ... Let Nature Teach Them The Lessons Of Good And Proper Living, Combined With An Abundance Of Well-balanced Nourishment. Those Children Will Grow To Be The Best Men And Women. Put The Best In Them By Contact With The Best Outside. They Will Absorb It As A Plant Absorbs The Sunshine And The Dew.

I Have Learned From Nature That Dependence On Unnatural Beliefs Weakens Us In The Struggle And Shortens Our Breath For The Race.