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Joseph Cornell
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(Taken from Joseph Cornell’s widely acclaimed book ‘Listening to Nature’. Also the author of ‘Sharing Nature with Children’, Cornell tours worldwide conducting nature awareness workshops for teachers, parents, youth leaders and naturalists)

If a child is to keep alive his unborn 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

When he was a young boy, George Washington Carver said, “Most people look but they don’t see.”

When you visit a particularly beautiful place in the wild, or when you’re just walking near your home and a beautiful flower or tree draws your attention, stop for a moment and spend a little time enjoying the moment. When restless thoughts come, such as “I should be hurrying along,” ignore them for as long as possible. Bring your mind back to the moment of communion.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would be seen as it is, infinite.

William Blake

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