Richard Louv Quotes

One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature.

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

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.

Exposing children to nature, especially at an early age, keeps them grounded.

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.

As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

When you surround yourself with nature, it's really powerful.

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

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

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature