Author Profile
Richard Louv
1949 • American • Author
24
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 24 quotesAs a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.— Richard Louv
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.— Richard Louv
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?— Richard Louv
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.— Richard Louv
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.'— Richard Louv
Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.— Richard Louv
I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.— Richard Louv
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.— Richard Louv
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.— Richard Louv