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The future will belong to the nature-smart.

Richard Louv

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Richard Louv
Age: 76
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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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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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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
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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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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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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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The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.
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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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As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.
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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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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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What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs, or green gyms? What if this approach becomes the norm in every community?
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Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.
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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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The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
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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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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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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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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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