Richard Louv Quotes About Nature
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Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.
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An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.
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Use all of your senses.
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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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The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
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Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.
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There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.
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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
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By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.
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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.
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Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.
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This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.
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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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In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.
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Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.
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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?
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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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Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.
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Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.
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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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Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
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There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.
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Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.
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The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and the road-all of these places are entire universes to a young child.
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To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.
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