"The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that……" — Richard Louv
"The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999."
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Richard Louv
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98 Quotes by Richard Louv
Richard Louv has 98 quotes on this site.
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The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.
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We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which…
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In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing…
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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
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Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to…
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Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way,…
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Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In…
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Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you…
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The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.
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The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is…
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One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if…
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An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical…
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