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Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

Richard Louv

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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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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In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
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We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.
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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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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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Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the rewards that await a family then it invites more nature into children's lives.
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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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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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When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.
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These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
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Use all of your senses.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
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Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.
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