Quotes by Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

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Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagina — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented b — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't suppos — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses. — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, a — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth lo — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces. Jane Clark, a U — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder