Rachel Carson Quotes

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I always love writing about children.

I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?