I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.
Paulo CoelhoTags: childhood child tears enthusiasm
Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
Pablo NerudaGrown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhat is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
Lin YutangTags: food patriotism childhood
So they all went home afterwards. My sisters and I sat on the veranda and cried until a storm drove us inside. We agreed to meet in the barn loft for crying once a week but after a while we forgot. Once we did but nobody could work up a cry and we started playing wolves and chickens and Little Mary had to be the chicken and Savannah shoved her out of the loft and broke her collarbone. The hearts of children are hard naturally because of their short memories. Everything they play with becomes true and unquestionable such as an acorn cap for a Holy Grail, such is the power of the untrained mind, and all our training of it is both of advantage and not.
Paulette JilesThe woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
Richard LouvTags: nature childhood parenting
[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground since there seemed to be no meeting place on mine. I learned to hide the thoughts and dreams and fancies that had no place in the strife and clash of the market place. I found that it was useless to look for kindred souls in the multitude; one might stumble on such here and there, but as a rule it seemed to me that the majority of people lived for the things of time and sense alone and could not understand my other life. So I piped and danced to other people's piping - and held fast to my own soul as best I could.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: reality soul dreams childhood spirit
Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.
Ivan DoigWe parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.
Roddy DoyleTags: childhood grass bicycles verges
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.
Richard LouvTags: nature childhood parenting
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