A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of 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 disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with
things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
Rachel
Carson (1965: The sense of wonder)
Here is a good link to a Kath Murdoch handout.
http://www.learningnetwork.ac.nz/shared/professionalReading/KMWS62012.pdf
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