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We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

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Protect, Knows

Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.104, Algonquin Books

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Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

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Essentials, Way, Leisure

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.99, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

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Children, Class, Appreciate

FaceBook post by Richard Louv from May 23, 2013

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Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

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Emotional, Community, Attention

Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.36, Algonquin Books

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Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.

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Nature, Children, Passion

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Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

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Survival, Fundamentals, World

Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.3, Algonquin Books

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Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

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Nature, Dust, Hands

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

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Nature, Children, Creativity

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.50, Atlantic Books Ltd

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The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

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Children, Ideas, Fundamentals

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.276, Atlantic Books Ltd

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The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

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Real, Smart, Leader

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In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

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Children, Adults, World

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

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Nature, Cities, Intellectual

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This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

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Use, Enough, States

Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.25, Algonquin Books

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In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

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Nature, Curves, Needs

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

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Nature, Children, Moving

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.148, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

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Art, Nature, Math

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

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What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

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Technology, Night, Life Is Like

Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.3, Algonquin Books

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As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

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Children, Stress, Emotional

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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.

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Nature, School, Parent

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.176, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

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Doe, Amplify, Stealing

FaceBook post by Richard Louv from Dec 13, 2012

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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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Block, Staring, Senses

"Going on a Techno-Fast: Taking a Break From the Virtual World" by Richard Louv, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2013.

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Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

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Running, Kids, Water

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.32, Atlantic Books Ltd

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We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.

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Nature, Children, Memories

Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.316, Algonquin Books

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A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level.

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Children, Believe, Loss

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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Growing Up, Kids, Parent

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