Subaru Promotes Children and Nature Movement
Drive – January 01, 2008
By Richard Louv
Car manufacturer Subaru has devoted the cover of its quarterly magazine Drive to promoting the children and nature movement. Inside the magazine there is an excerpt from Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods that provides a succinct introduction to the ideas behind the movement.
One evening when my boys were younger, Matthew, then 10, looked at me from across a restaurant table and said quite seriously, "Dad, how come it was more fun when you were a kid?" I asked what he meant. "Well, you're always talking about your woods and tree houses, and how you used to ride that horse down near the swamp." At first, I thought he was irritated with me. I had, in fact, been telling him what is was like to use string and pieces of liver to catch crawdads in a creek, something I’d be hard-pressed to find… Fair Use Notice
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