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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.
Richard Louv
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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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.
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By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
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To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.
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Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.
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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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These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Use all of your senses.
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All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.
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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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