conservation

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time pollution

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is a foreign concept to many of us. Parents today, having not grown up in nature, know that it is good for their kids but, they don't know where to start.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start. Richard Louv

is today constructed as existing in the past and as such, as thought it doesn't count anymore other than as boogeymen in the woods.

We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal. Richard Louv

is the feeling that the essence of what makes life worth living (the small moments, the special family getaways, the cookies in the oven, the weekend drives, the long dreamlike summers) has been taken from us for Hitachi stereos, Club Med, Company cars, Racquetball, fifteen-hour days and lousy day care.

The rebellion is against time pollution, the feeling that the essence of what makes life worth living—the small moments, the special family getaways, the cookies in the oven, the weekend drives, the long dreamlike summers—so much of this has been taken from us, or we have given it up. For what? Hitachi stereos? Club Med? Company cars? Racquetball? For fifteen-hour days and lousy day care?

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