Rachel Carson Quotes

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

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

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

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, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

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

I always love writing about children.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.