“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
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… — 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
This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the… — 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
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
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace. — 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
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
“My contention throughout this book is that reconnecting to nature is one key to growing a larger environmental movement. That reconnection is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate. — 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
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
“This principle holds that a reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.” — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting… — 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
In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. — 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
“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
