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Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.
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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
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?
Richard Louv
The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.
Richard Louv
What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
Richard Louv
We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.
Richard Louv
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
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.
Richard Louv
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
Richard Louv
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.
Richard Louv
The future will belong to the nature-smart.
Richard Louv
The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
Richard Louv