"We do not raise our children alone.... Our……" — Richard Louv
"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 parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone."
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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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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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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 try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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