Rachel Carson Quotes about Children

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

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 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

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”

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

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

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

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

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