Richard Louv Quotes

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• The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.
• We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet…
• In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous…
• What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
• Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are…
• Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).
• Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the…
• Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt…
• The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.
• The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially…
• One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new.…
• An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to…
• There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining…
• This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of…
• The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural…
• Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of…
• We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
• Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.
• In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young…
• The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and…

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