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“ Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. ”

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Joni Mitchell had it right: They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot. But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lot / and raised up a paradise

~ Richard Louv

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

~ Richard Louv

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 woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

~ Richard Louv