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Use all of your senses.

Richard Louv

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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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Nature

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We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.
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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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If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its preservation. Can we teach children to look at a flower and see all the things it represents: beauty, the health of an ecosystem, and the potential for healing?
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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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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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By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
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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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Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.
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To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.
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These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
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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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