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The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
Richard Louv
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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.
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We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.
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How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
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I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.
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We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
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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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Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run they want to see where a stream of water takes them.
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The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
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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. I have come to appreciate the long view afforded by those treetops. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
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Use all of your senses.
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In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
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Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the rewards that await a family then it invites more nature into children's lives.
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Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.
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These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
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Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.
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As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.
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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 in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.
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If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.
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We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.
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