168 Quotes by Richard Louv

We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.

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.

Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child’s life.

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature’s gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat – draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

Going out into nature was one outlet that I had, which truly allowed me to calm down and not think or worry.

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.

Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from nature dulls our senses, and eventually blunts even the sharpened sensory state created by man-made or natural disaster.

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