Richard Louv Quotes

“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.”

Richard Louv

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

“The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.”

Richard Louv

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

“In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.”

Richard Louv

“Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.”

Richard Louv book Last Child in the Woods

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