Katy’s Reviews > The Sense of Wonder : A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children > Status Update

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea, and sky and their amazing life.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know then to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know then to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

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 disenchantment of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.