Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods Book Analysis

In Richard Louv's book, Last Child in the Woods, one fourth-grader describes his play preferences: “I like to play indoors better cause that's where all the electrical outlets are.” Today, many children no longer experience the natural world and many suffer from “nature-deficit disorder, ” a term coined by Louv to describe “the human costs of alienation from nature, among them diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses.” Depression and higher crime rates can be linked to the absence or inaccessibility of parks and open ...