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

Richard Louv's landmark book coins the term 'nature-deficit disorder' and documents the dramatic decline in children's time outdoors — and its consequences for attention, physical health, creativity, and emotional wellbeing. A foundational text in the outdoor play and children-and-nature movements, credited with inspiring the Children and Nature Network and shifting national conversation about children's relationship with the natural world.