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Richard Louv, born in 1949, is a renowned author whose work primarily focuses on the relationship between humans and nature, particularly the relationship between children and nature. Louv's works have had a profound impact on the fields of environmental protection and education.

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“Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.”

Kids Pay Too Much Adults Wholesale

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“Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.”

Kids Adults Contact

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“A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.”

People Thinking Needs Giving Giving Up Adults Careful Be Careful

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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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“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.”

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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.”

Ifs Children Eye Desire Nations Community Cities Seeing Example Adults Endeavor Sensible Humane Kinder Through The Eyes Eyes Of A Child

Book:Childhood's Future

Source: Childhood's Future

“In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.”

World Children Fantasy Adults Privacy Separate Peace

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: 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 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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Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.”

Children Two Age Numbers Five Disease Percent Adults Population Data Reports Overweight

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“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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Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

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Born: 1949
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit DisorderRelated source material

The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual AgeRelated source material

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