“But in children, cultivate the wonder as a foundation for facts.” An important theme to the “the wonder book” (Rachel Carson) would be this direct pathway into the unity and awe of nature:
It is important for a child to have some direct knowledge, from an early age, of lives other than human – some of the thousands upon thousands of species that, even as he does, inhabit this earth. He should be aware of them, it as creatures described in books, or as a word in a crossword puzzle, but animals living in his own world, searching for food, caring for their young, struggling to survive in the face of difficulties.
P. 134, A natural sense of wonder, Rick Van Noy
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