Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder

Richard Louv

What do children lose when they grow up apart from nature, and how can families and communities bring it back?

At a glance

You will see how much children's freedom to roam near home has shrunk since the nineteen seventies
You will value time outdoors as something that widens a child's world and time, where television only steals it
You will question whether schools built around testing leave children enough time to play outdoors