Richard Louv Quotes
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.
Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.
Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.
By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.
The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.
Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.
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.
The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)
