Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.

— Richard Louv

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While outdoor activities in general help, settings with trees and grass are the most beneficial.

— Richard Louv

As we grow more separate from nature, we continue to separate from one another physically.

— Richard Louv

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime – especially.

— Richard Louv

Nature – the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful – offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot.

— Richard Louv

Parents are told to turn off the TV and restrict video game time, but we hear little about what the kids should do physically during their non-electronic time. The usual suggestion is organized sports. But consider this: The obesity epidemic coincides with the greatest increase in organized children’s sports in history.

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I have a soft spot in my heart for tree houses, which have always imparted certain magic and practical knowledge.

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Though we often see ourselves as separate from nature, humans are also part of that wildness.

— Richard Louv

These ecstatic moments of delight or fear, or both, “radioactive jewels buried within us, emitting energy across the years of our lives,” as Chawla eloquently puts it, are most often experienced in nature during formative years.

— Richard Louv

Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.

— Richard Louv

On average, the greener a girl’s view from home, the better she concentrates, the less she acts impulsively, and the longer she can delay gratification.

— Richard Louv

Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.

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In an effort to value and structure time, some of us unintentionally may be killing dreamtime.

— Richard Louv

Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.

— Richard Louv

Wilson defines biophilia as “the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.

— Richard Louv

Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.

— Richard Louv

Roszak argued that modern psychology has split the inner life from the outer life, and that we have repressed our “ecological unconscious” that provides “our connection to our evolution on earth.

— Richard Louv

Too often, small towns invaded by urban expatriates lose their character and physical beauty to overdevelopment.

— Richard Louv

Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

— Richard Louv

Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses.

— Richard Louv

The more high tech we become the more nature we need.

— Richard Louv
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