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Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

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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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These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
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Use all of your senses.
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To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.
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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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The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
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Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
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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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In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
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If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children it's even better if the adult and child learn about nature together. And it's a lot more fun.
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The future will belong to the nature-smart.
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The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
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