Rachel Carson Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her 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 artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Children, Years

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

• I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Believe, Parent

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

• 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

  Life, Motivational, Family

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

• Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It:
  Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child;
  Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth.
  Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it.
  Fosters empathy and wonder.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

• Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Children, Humanity

• Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Garden, Important

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, Garden

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, World

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

• If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Creativity, Awe And Wonder

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

• By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Believe, Mean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.32, Open Road Media

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