*The Sense of Wonder*

"If I had the 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,
an unfailing antidote
against the boredom and
disenchantment of later years,
sterile preoccupations with things that are
artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."

- Rachel Carson