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

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  Nature, Joy, Energy

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

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• The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.

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  Children, Data, Two

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.43, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

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  Bullying, May, Natural

  "Restoring Peace: 6 Ways Nature in Our Lives Can Reduce the Violence in Our World" by Richard Louv, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.

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• I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.

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  Change, Dream, Mean

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• In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.

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  Mother, Children, Years

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

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  Real, War, Simple

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

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• 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.

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  Kids, Talking, Parent

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

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  Needs, Natural, Surroundings

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• Use all of your senses.

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  Nature, Use, Senses

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.139, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

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  Children, Eye, Cities

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

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