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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.
Richard Louv
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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children it's even better if the adult and child learn about nature together. And it's a lot more fun.
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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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Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.
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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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Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.
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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, in our own).
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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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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
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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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Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.
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The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
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To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.
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If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
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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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Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.
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An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to children's concept and perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ability to discern true danger
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Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.
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There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.
Richard Louv
All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.
Richard Louv
We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.
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