Richard Louv Quotes

Richard Louv is an American nonfiction author and journalist. He is best known for his seventh book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder , which investigates the relationship of children and the natural world in current and historical contexts. Louv created the term "nature-deficit disorder" to describe possible negative consequences to individual health and the social fabric as children move indoors and away from physical contact with the natural world – particularly unstructured, solitary experience. Louv cites research pointing to attention disorders, obesity, a dampening of creativity and depression as problems associated with a nature-deficient childhood. He amassed information on the subject from practitioners of many disciplines to make his case, and is commonly credited with helping to inspire an international movement to reintroduce children to nature. Wikipedia

✵ 1949

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Last Child in the Woods

Last Child in the Woods

Richard Louv

Last Child in the Woods

Last Child in the Woods

Richard Louv

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Famous 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.”

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.”

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.”

“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

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