Best quotes by Richard Louv on Nature

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• ‟ Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

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• ‟ By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

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• ‟ Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

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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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ 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.'

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ 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.

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