05/17/2026
This quote is a great reminder that a child's love of nature is innate. It's our job to just get them outside to enjoy it!
This also reminds me of a quote by Rachel Carson in her essay, "The Sense of Wonder": “A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement."
She goes on to say, "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 years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.”
So how do we continue to foster that love of nature, that sense of wonder, that "clear-eyed vision"? It starts with one easy step: Simply going outside.
