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Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

Richard Louv

Kids, Week, Hours

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One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

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Names, Knowing, Giving

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

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When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

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Kids, Sitting, Use

"Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.

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Character, Eight, Average

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

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Names, Tree, What If

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.115, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

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Change, Children, Growing Up

Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and the road-all of these places are entire universes to a young child.

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Weed, Nature, Children

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.137, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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.

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Meaningful, Play, Parent

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A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

Richard Louv

Nature, Fields, Environment

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.145, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

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Nature, Antidote

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.142, Atlantic Books Ltd

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If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

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Meaningful, Nature, Stars

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The future will belong to the nature-smart.

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Smart, Deeper Understanding

Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.4, Algonquin Books

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We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

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Kids, Past, Electronics

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By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

Richard Louv

Nature, Children, Joy

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.137, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

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Children, Rocks, Fishing

"Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs, or green gyms? What if this approach becomes the norm in every community?

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Country, Kids, Adventure

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When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.

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Children, Memories, Future

Richard Louv (1998). “Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us”, p.190, Conari Press

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Green exercise improves psychological health.

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Exercise, Psychological Health, Green

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These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.

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These Days, Hard

"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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The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

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Meaningful, Nature, Children

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

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What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

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Nature, Morning, Stars

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

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There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

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Nature, Joy, Wonder

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.12, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.

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Nature, Children, Play

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.74, Atlantic Books Ltd

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This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.

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Nature, House, Tree

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From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

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Beach, Children, Fishing

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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