Outdoor Kids in an Inside World Quotes

“STEPS”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

“pile”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

“opportunities.”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

“our kids need to understand that they are not above, outside, or apart from their physical environment—they are completely intertwined with it, and it with them.”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

“Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it’s just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds.”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

“Fear prevents engagement; lack of engagement builds into a habit of avoidance; and pretty soon it’s just your family stuck inside four walls, where perhaps the biggest obstacle of all—technology—abounds. Even if you recognize that it might not be good for them to be in their”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

“In the first half of the twentieth century, the conservationist Aldo Leopold had already warned of two “spiritual dangers” that come from not owning a farm: “One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

“Try to remember that they’re the reason you’re out there—that their experience comes first. Adjust your pace to hike with them and set goals together for reaching certain landmarks or distances.”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

“The whining and fighting during that two-hour car ride to the lake may make you want to bag the whole trip. No matter what, though, stick with it. I have faith that you’ll eventually find, or reconnect with, the addictive qualities of nature.”
― Steven Rinella, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature