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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: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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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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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The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.
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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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Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.
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Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.
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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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A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.
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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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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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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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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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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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We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.
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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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By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
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Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.
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