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“Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.”

Children Earth Nature Wonder Taste Miracle

Author:Edna Jaques

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.”

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.”

People Trying Children Soul Moments Would Be Given Nature Clear Dangerous Fine Promise Mood Backgrounds Landscape Old People Debtors

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.”

Kind Children Humanity Nature Awareness Development Reverence Wholeness

Author:Rachel Carson

“If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.”

Ifs Children Play Law Nature Childhood Citizens Seeds Abiding Discontent Birthright

Book:The Big Stick, 1905-1909

Source: The Big Stick, 1905-1909

“Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.”

Humans Children Young Mother Father Nature Blood Taxes Cradle Babe

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's