The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder

Deprive an individual of everything that nurtured them--and you're going to have a mess. Deprive a species of everything that nurtured us--you have 21st century Americans. We grew up in the wild, and when we moved from the African veldt to the European and North American forests, the wild went with us. Now we have set up an elaborate society designed to strip us of the environment that made us--and Richard Louv is speaking out, inspirationally, on why it doesn't have to be this way.
- Carl Pope, Chairman, The Sierra Club

"Put the remote down and get outside. Richard Louv's new book is a refreshingly personal and eloquent case for building nature-smart communities that will not only protect the diversity of life on the planet, but also sustain our communities and ourselves."
- David Yarnold, President & CEO of The National Audubon Society

"Richard Louv seeks through his latest book to inspire a new social network that ensures nature is an essential and everyday part of modern life, community, and business. This is an important and powerful vision that offers us a blueprint for a better world and happier, healthier inhabitants."
- Sally Jewell, President & CEO of REI


"Wonderful! 'The Nature Principle' is a splendid synthesis, gathering abundant evidence for a truth that should be achingly obvious to all, but has somehow been hiding behind the gleam and flash of our contemporary concerns: our health, our creativity, and our basic sanity depend upon regular contact and interchange with the living land around us."
- David Abram, author of "Becoming Animal" and "The Spell of the Sensuous"

"Our alienation from the rest of Creation represents a fundamental shift in human evolution. Louv has eloquently documented our schism from nature and the very real physical and psychic consequences. This book provides a way back to where we belong, a world full of reverence, joy and discovery."
- David Suzuki, author of "Sacred Balance"