Richard Louv
Richard Louv
Richard Louvis an American nonfiction author and journalist. He is best known for his seventh book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, which investigates the relationship of children and the natural world in current and historical contexts. Louv created the term “nature-deficit disorder” to describe possible negative consequences to individual health and the social fabric as children move indoors and away from physical contact with the natural world – particularly unstructured, solitary experience. Louv cites...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
The future will belong to the nature-smart...
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?
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.
American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.
A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.
As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.