I realize that the past two posts have simply stolen the ideas and words of Richard Louv and the Children & Nature Network. However, I just cannot pass up passing this along to you. This is an exerpt from the Holiday Letter from the CNN. Enjoy.
Come, my friends, ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I’m writing to ask your help, first by imagining a newer world. A world in which all children grow up with a deep understanding of the life around them, where they know the animals and plants of their own back yards as well as the televised Amazon rainforest, or better.
A newer world where the point of education is wonder and awe, where every school has a natural play space or garden. Imagine a world in which pediatricians prescribe nature. A world in which families become closer, and join with other families to explore the natural world. Where children, in inner cities and far suburbs, experience the joy of being in nature before they learn of its loss, where they can lie in the grass on a hillside for hours and watch clouds become the faces of the future. Imagine a newer world where every child has a human right to a connection to the natural world, and shares the responsibility for caring for it. Where every child has the opportunity to help create that world.
Richard Louv
Chairman Emeritus,
Children & Nature Network
