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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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“How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?”

Ifs Kids Moral Alive Complexity

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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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“Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.”

Kids Hours Week Mediums

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“Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.”

Way Different Kids Mother Father Communication Direct Different Ways

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Mean Kids Games Technology Danger Balance Video

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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.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

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“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.”

Needs Helping Kids School Easy Parent Community Blame Library Agents Disorder Urban Deficit Planners School Library

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“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.”

Kids Past Games Fronts Tvs Computer Woods Electronics Computer Games

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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.”

Knows Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Generations Adults

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“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.”

Kids Past Woods Illegal Electronics Boogeyman

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“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.”

Way Use Kids Fronts Sitting Screens Senses

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“Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.”

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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

“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.”

Ifs Children Kids Together Joy Order Belief Fun Nature Share Adults Perfection Good Things Defeat Chores

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

“Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.”

Want Running Kids Water Imagination Streams Organized

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

“What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs, or green gyms? What if this approach becomes the norm in every community?”

Ifs Country Kids Together Parent Community Adventure Band Approach Green Clubs What If Gym Grandparent Norm Outdoor Adventure

Author:Richard Louv

About the Author

Born: 1949
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Quotes: 115

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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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