Brevi lezioni di meraviglia. Elogio della natura per genitori e figli

A description of how adults and parents can awake the fascination, love and interest for nature in kids and how mindfulness and sustainability can be taught to the smallest that will grow to the decision-makers of the future. As I like to say, this is a positive example of "Give them to us when they Leggi tutto

Happy birthday, Rachel Carson!! Mother earth, champion of the environment. "If a child is to keep alive his inborn 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 "If I h Leggi tutto

How f-ing awesome would it be to have Rachel Carson as your doting aunt? -and to have her introduce you to the tide pools of Maine? -and the forests of New England? -and the birds of North America? Roger, you are one fortunate sonofabitch.

The Sense of Wonder was first published as a magazine article in a 1956s Woman’s Home Companion under the title “Help Your Child to Wonder”. She intended to expand the essay into a book, and spent much of 1959 collecting material for the expansion, but then Silent Spring was published to the massive Leggi tutto

This is my favorite book in any genre and I will never tire of reading and rereading it. Thank you, scientist and poet Rachel Carson. (4/5/21: This has to be my 10th reread at least and I could read it a thousand times more and not grow tired of it.)

This is my first book read this year. On an unseasonably warm winter's day, after a walk in the arboretum, I sat in their library and read this book from cover to cover. This is a re-read and I was reminded of how much I loved her writing. She evokes a sense of wonder at the natural world that I fee Leggi tutto

I encountered the work of Rachel Carson when I was 16 years old. I was both moved and inspired by her book,Silent Spring, that explored issues of the toxic impact of man-made chemicals within the human environment. In the Sense of Wonder the reader encounters a uniquely poetic side of this forward t Leggi tutto

This is written to/about her nephew & the sense of wonder she enjoyed with him exploring nature when he was a child. According to the forward, she intended to expand on it, but I'm glad she didn't. She repeated herself a bit as it was. Excellent advice on introducing a child to nature, though. Somet Leggi tutto

This got me good! I fear I cried. Really reminded me of the times my dad and I would be walking around in the forest and he would show me different rocks and trees, or the times he would point out different constellations/planets. These are some of the conversations I miss the most. Would recommend