I didn't actually finish this book. I liked the beginning, and can whole-heartedly agree with his concept of being nature deficient, at least for me, especially in the middle of winter. I really feel I could seriously use a bit of nature experience about now, and I mean more than taking the dog f...
Louv develops his arguments from "Last Children in the Woods" (and if you read one of his books, that's the one), asserting that Nature Deficit Disorder afflicts everyone and lies at the root of many social and environmental problems. He pushes for social networking as a means to remedy this sit...
This is typical sentence from Last Child in the Woods: "he offered no academic studies to support his theory; nonetheless his statement rang true." That about sums up this book: it's not empirical, but, nonetheless, it rings true'"more or less. Louv draws his conclusions far too widely and gives ...