168 Quotes by Richard Louv

Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature, and higher education has placed less value on such disciplines as zoology……The times are right for the return of the amateur, twenty-first-century, citizen naturalist. To be a citizen naturalist is to take personal action, to both protect and participate in nature.

Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing...

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

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.