"Time in nature is not leisure time; it's……" — Richard Louv
"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)."
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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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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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There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole…
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
— Diane Ackerman
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I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.
— Michelle Bachelet
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,…
— Michelle Bachelet
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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
— Andre Balazs
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Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed.…
— Roseanne Barr
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work…
— Bruce Barton
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
— Gary Bauer
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us.…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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