168 Quotes by Richard Louv

Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses.

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.

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.

IT TAKES TIME – loose, unstructured dreamtime – to experience nature in a meaningful way.

Nature introduces children to the idea – to the knowing – that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

Nature – the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful – offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot.

Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it? More important, why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.

In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a ‘dangerous form of spiritual alienation’ – a devaluing of the world and its creator.