Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very… — 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
Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart.… — 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
Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from… — 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
What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“As a powerful deterrent to natural play, fear of liability ranks right behind the bogeyman. One goal in the fourth frontier should… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“If a geographic place rapidly changes in a way that demeans its natural integrity, then children’s early attachment to land is at… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent… — 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 -… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy. — 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
