Child Quote by Richard Louv

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will…

— Tamae Watanabe

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in…

— Maria Montessori

Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual…

— Walter Gropius

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.

— Richard Louv

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the…

— Richard Louv

“Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals…

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

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

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or…

— Richard Louv

“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced…

— Frederick William Faber

It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

— Maria Montessori