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“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

Source: The Training Of The Human Plant

“From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.”

Want Mind Littles Animal Boys Imagine Childhood Changed Grew Becoming Ambition Impression Jungle Little Boys Explorers Wild Animal Early Childhood

Author:John Goddard

“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”

“Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?”

May Has Beens Order Animal Childhood Appetite

Author:Ashley Montagu

“The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.”

Humans Natural Animal Magic Childhood Approach Conscious Adults Versions Unconscious Comprehension

Author:Seth

“Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.”

Humans Human Beings Animal Childhood Draws

Book:The Undressed Art: Why We Draw

Source: The Undressed Art: Why We Draw

“In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them.”

Littles Animal Gone Saws Childhood Fishes Mask Sharks Whales Diving Seaweed

Author:Enric Sala

“Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me”

Two Water Animal Childhood Golden Eggs Immense Sheets Baskets Ark Darkening Golden Eggs

Book:Paragon Park: Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Early Poems

Source: Paragon Park: Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Early Poems

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

Men Needs Years Littles Soul States Reason Mother Animal Childhood Century Pure Eternity Twenties Structure Maturity Instant Thirty Vegetables Womb Early Childhood

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.”

Eye Time Grows Loses Forget Animal Wonder Childhood Huge Speech Bird Sight Seven Accustomed Eleven Armor Converses Chunks

Book:The Favorite Game: A Novel

Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel

“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'”

“My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past. Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?”

People Knows Past Fall House Loses Memories Animal Environment Childhood Taught Dad Protect Losing Connections Sacred My Dad Bricks Falling Down Childhood Memories Aboriginal

Author:Bindi Irwin