Jessica Toro

“Michael Pyle says, “Place is what takes me out of myself, out of the limited scope of human activity, but this is not misanthropic. A sense of place is a way of embracing humanity among all of its neighbors. It is an entry into the larger world.”
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

“environmental problems are often caused by the same patriarchal values that oppress women.”
― Angel Contreras, Ecofeminism: A Radical Intersectional Approach to Environmental Justice **Introduction to Ecofeminism: A Radical Intersectional Approach to Environmental Justice**

“most attributed their commitment to a combination of two sources in childhood or adolescence: many hours spent outdoors in “keenly remembered” wild or semi-wild places, and a mentoring adult who taught respect for nature.”
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

“If having your life all figured out is the bar for being “ready” to have kids, no one will ever reach it. It is the choices you make—what to study, where to work, whom to love, and how—that will form you and shape your life, setting and delimiting the horizons of possibility, one day at a time.”
― Anastasia Berg, What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice