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Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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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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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We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.
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By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
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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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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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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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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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Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.
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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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The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
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