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All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.
Richard Louv
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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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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Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.
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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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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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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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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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The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
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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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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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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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To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.
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Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.
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By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
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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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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.
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Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.
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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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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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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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