The Sense of Wonder

A description of how adults and parents can awake the fascination, love and interest for nature in kids and how mindfulness and sustainability can be taught to the smallest that will grow to the decision-makers of the future. As I like to say, this is a positive example of "Give them to us when they......more

Happy birthday, Rachel Carson!! Mother earth, champion of the environment. "If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."- Rachel Carson "If I h......more

How f-ing awesome would it be to have Rachel Carson as your doting aunt? -and to have her introduce you to the tide pools of Maine? -and the forests of New England? -and the birds of North America? Roger, you are one fortunate sonofabitch.......more

The Sense of Wonder was first published as a magazine article in a 1956s Woman’s Home Companion under the title “Help Your Child to Wonder”. She intended to expand the essay into a book, and spent much of 1959 collecting material for the expansion, but then Silent Spring was published to the massive......more

This is my favorite book in any genre and I will never tire of reading and rereading it. Thank you, scientist and poet Rachel Carson. (4/5/21: This has to be my 10th reread at least and I could read it a thousand times more and not grow tired of it.)......more