Tina Louise's Quotes

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents.

I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Other species help children develop empathy.

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.'

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

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.

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.