List of Richard Louv Quotes

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Richard Louv
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If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: a city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.
Children Eye Cities
The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.
Real War Simple
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.
Years Discipline People
Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.
Bullying May Natural
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.
Giving Up Thinking People
This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our fort apache...ours was a learning tree. through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.
Nature House Tree
In a famous middletown study of muncie, indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. at the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. more than fifty years later, when the middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. the healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.
Mother Children Years
I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. but the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. to have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. for so many americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.
Change Dream Mean
Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.
Children Parent Understanding
Use all of your senses.
Nature Use Senses
Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. as i grow older, for example, i might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. when i become a grandparent, i might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.
Grandparent Interesting Example
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.
Nature Land People
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