Quotes by : Richard Louv

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's....

Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use....

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that....

Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near....

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief....

A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces.....

The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's....

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front....

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology....