Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty - and refuge.… — Richard Louv Copy Share
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity. — Richard Louv Copy Share
As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human… — Richard Louv Copy Share
No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its… — Richard Louv Copy Share
In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a… — Richard Louv Copy Share
Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and… — Richard Louv Copy Share
This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state… — Richard Louv Copy Share
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. — Richard Louv Copy Share
“Most scientists who study human perception no longer assume that we have five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing. The current number ranges… — Richard Louv Copy Share
Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for… — Richard Louv Copy Share
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace. — Richard Louv Copy Share
Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that… — Richard Louv Copy Share
