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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.

Richard Louv

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Richard Louv
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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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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We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.
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We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.
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Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.
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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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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?
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Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.
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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 a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
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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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If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
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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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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?
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