Richard Louv Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Class, Appreciate

  FaceBook post by Richard Louv from May 23, 2013

• We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Joy, Energy

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.220, Atlantic Books Ltd

• The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

  Richard Louv

  Real, War, Simple

  Richard Louv (1998). “Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us”, p.123, Conari Press

• It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because we intend it to shrink, but because time is consumed by multiple, invisible forces; because our culture currently places so little value on natural play.

  Richard Louv

  Meaningful, Play, Parent

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