A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young… — 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
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
We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories.… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back. — 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
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power… — 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
The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates… — 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
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
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
What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology? — 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
Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy. — 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
Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen. — 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
