The Nature Principle Quotes

“The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“This principle holds that a reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from nature dulls our senses, and eventually blunts even the sharpened sensory state created by man-made or natural disaster.”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“Most scientists who study human perception no longer assume that we have five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing. The current number ranges from a conservative ten senses to as many as thirty, including blood-sugar levels, empty stomach, thirst, joint position, and more. The list is growing.”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive. Alive in the larger universe, alive in time.”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“My contention throughout this book is that reconnecting to nature is one key to growing a larger environmental movement. That reconnection is visceral and immediately useful to many people’s lives. Encouraging personal reconnection does not mean less engagement with global environmental issues; it means more. To act, most of us need motivation beyond despair.”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.”
― Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age