The Orchid and the Dandelion Quotes

“Every child born into this living world is a wonder of absolute singularity, an exquisitely unique organism with a complexity that we can only glimpse and estimate. We must therefore greet every new birth with the humility and awe that is borne of our overpowering limits and terrible constraints. I have never examined a newborn infant without muted reverence for its glistening newness and unfettered promise.”
― W Thomas Boyce, The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive

“extraordinary, biologically embedded sensitivities that render such children so unduly susceptible to the hazards and adversities of life make them also more receptive to the gifts and promises of life. Therein lies an intriguing and life-giving secret: that orchids are not broken dandelions but a different, more subtle kind of flower. Within the struggles and frailties of orchids lies an unimagined strength and redemptive beauty.”
― W Thomas Boyce, The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive

“flowers, they are both endowed and burdened with an exquisite sensitivity to the inhabited, living world, and, also like the orchid, have both frailties that can threaten their existence and health, as well as hidden capacities for lives of beauty, honesty, and notable achievement. Make no mistake, however, that”
― W Thomas Boyce, The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive

“childhood poverty remains the single most powerful determinant of ill health for the entire human life span.”
― W Thomas Boyce, The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive