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1. "It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible." ~ Richard Louv
2. "Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale." ~ Richard Louv
3. "Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week." ~ Richard Louv
4. "No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus." ~ Richard Louv
5. "These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find." ~ Richard Louv
6. "We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal." ~ Richard Louv
7. "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
8. "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
9. "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." ~ Richard Louv
10. "Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes." ~ Richard Louv
11. "Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods." ~ Richard Louv
12. "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
13. "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
14. "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
15. "Green exercise improves psychological health." ~ Richard Louv
16. "Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying." ~ Richard Louv
17. "By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility." ~ Richard Louv
18. "Other species help children develop empathy." ~ Richard Louv
19. "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
20. "Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact." ~ Richard Louv
21. "If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children; it's even better if the adult and child learn about nature together. And it's a lot more fun." ~ Richard Louv
22. "The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses." ~ Richard Louv
23. "Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its preservation. Can we teach children to look at a flower and see all the things it represents: beauty, the health of an ecosystem, and the potential for healing?" ~ Richard Louv
24. "Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it? More important, why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching? The highway's edges may not be postcard perfect. But for a century, children's early understanding of how cities and nature fit together was gained from the backseat: the empty farmhouse at the edge of the subdivision; the variety of architecture, here and there; the woods and fields and water beyond the seamy edges--all that was and still is available to the eye. This was the landscape that we watched as children. It was our drive-by movie." ~ Richard Louv
25. "What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?" ~ Richard Louv
26. "Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature." ~ Richard Louv
27. "In an agricultural society, or during a time of exploration and settlement, or hunting and fathering--which is to say, most of mankind's history--energetic boys were particularly prized for their strength, speed, and agility. [...] As recently as the 1950s, most families still had some kind of agricultural connection. Many of these children, girls as well as boys, would have been directing their energy and physicality in constructive ways: doing farm chores, baling hay, splashing in the swimming hole, climbing trees, racing to the sandlot for a game of baseball. Their unregimented play would have been steeped in nature." ~ Richard Louv
28. "If you can't live in the land you love, love the land you're in." ~ Richard Louv
29. "My contention throughout this book is that reconnecting to nature is one key to growing a larger environmental movement. That reconnection is visceral and immediately useful to many people's lives. Encouraging personal reconnection does not mean less engagement with global environmental issues; it means more. To act, most of us need motivation beyond despair." ~ Richard Louv
30. "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)." ~ Richard Louv
31. "This principle holds that a reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival." ~ Richard Louv
32. "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." ~ Richard Louv
33. "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." ~ Richard Louv
34. "Until recently, most environmental organizations offered only token attention to children. Perhaps their lack of zeal stems from an unconscious ambivalence about children, who symbolize or represent overpopulation. So goes the unspoken mantra: We have met the enemy and it is our progeny." ~ Richard Louv
35. "and old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many." ~ Richard Louv
36. "An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to children's concept and perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ability to discern true danger" ~ Richard Louv

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