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“I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.”

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Richard Louv
Richard Louv

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. more

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