Nurturing a Sense of Wonder...

“I should ask that a gift to each child in the world be
a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last
throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the
boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile
preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation
from the sources of our strength…If a child is to keep alive
his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of
at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him
the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
– Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder (1998)