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.
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinn… - Richard Louv
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinn…
- Richard Louv
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the… - Richard Louv
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the…
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and hi… - Richard Louv
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and hi…
A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field. - Richard Louv
A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the t… - Richard Louv
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the t…
We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense. - Richard Louv
We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own). - Richard Louv
Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity. - Richard Louv
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival. - Richard Louv
Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.
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