"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me,……" — Richard Louv
"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses."
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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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I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with…
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I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
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My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner…
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What calmed me down finally was when my girlfriend got pregnant.
— Johnny Knoxville
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The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third,…
— Gautama Buddha
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Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning…
— Gautama Buddha
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I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.'…
— Anthony Minghella
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I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the…
— Dave Reichert
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In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us…
— Frances Ridley Havergal
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Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days.…
— Richard Louv
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The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still…
— Eric Ludy
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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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