In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000.… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale. — 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
Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in… — 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
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
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
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is… — 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 Image
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“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 Image
