Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

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An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.Richard Louv

The future will belong to the nature-smart—those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real.Richard Louv

We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our storiesRichard Louv

There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion without a force to balance it creates a hole in the boat, draining our ability to pay attention, think clearly, and be productive and creative.Richard Louv

As the young spend less and less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically, and this reduces the richness of human experience.Richard Louv

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.Richard Louv

Without the gifts of nature, creativity wanes, leaving humans adrift, to contemplate only themselves.Richard Louv

A kid today can likely tell you about the Amazon rain forest- but not about the last time he or she explored the woods in solitude, or lay in a field listening to the wind and watching the clouds moveRichard Louv

The more high-tech we become, the more nature we needRichard Louv

Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart.Richard Louv