Community Quotes by Richard Louv

9 Community quotes by Richard Louv

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Richard Louv’s nature‑infused reflections on Community appear in nine brief excerpts, giving a swift sense of his advocacy for outdoor connection and communal health. This short set serves as an inviting entry to his eco‑centric voice.

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Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates…

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An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological…

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If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is…

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Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young…

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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native…

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What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks,…

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It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban…

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I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not…

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In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent…

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“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty - and refuge.…

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Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

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As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human…

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A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

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Green exercise improves psychological health.

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

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In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a…

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Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and…

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This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state…

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Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

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Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

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“Most scientists who study human perception no longer assume that we have five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing. The current number ranges…

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