We tend to curb a child's instincts to explore the natural environment for reasons of hygiene or for fear of bugs or getting hurt. More than learning rhymes, reading, writing, toys, gadgets or books ..
“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.” - Luther Burbank
“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.” - Luther Burbank
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Knowledge is inherent in all things. The world is a library and its books are the stones, leaves, grass, brooks and the birds and animals that share, alike with us, the storms and blessing of the earth. We should learn to do what only the student of nature ever learns, and that is to feel its beauty ... Chief Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher - William Wordsworth |
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