168 Quotes by Richard Louv

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

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.

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.

We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.