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Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.
Richard Louv
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Richard Louv
Age: 76
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.
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All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.
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The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
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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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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
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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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Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.
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This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.
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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.
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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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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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