The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see. — 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
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
We do not raise our children alone… Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come… — 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
It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of… — 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… — 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
Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things… — 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
Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks,… — 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
