Thursday, October 5, 2006

Richard Louv says our society is suffering from nature-deficit disorder:

ADHD may be a set of symptoms initiated or aggravated by lack of exposure to nature. By this line of thinking, many children may benefit from medications, but the real disorder lies in the society that has disengaged children from nature and imposed on them an artificial environment for which they have not evolved.

A kind commenter on this previous post prompted me to look around for something by Louv; the above is a bit old but definitely worth reading.

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