A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. 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 year…the alienation from the sources of our strength. Rachel Carson
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I don’t think that everyone in their childhood had the same experiences. Maybe some of your parents just weren’t there, or maybe they were there for you, but it all depended on how you saw them. So if your parents were there, if they were good to you, but maybe they didn’t really understand what you were feeling or what you wanted, then maybe your view of them would be not so good. Once you got older, maybe the way you saw the world would be different because you would find out that things were not always how they seemed.

Source: The Sense Of Wonder

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