“Now and then, take the children for a ramble in the woods or fields, or go to the brook or lake. Call their attention to the interesting things they you meet-whether you yourself understand them or not-in order to teach them to see and find some point of sympathy; for every one of them will some day need the solace and rest which this nature-love can give them. It is not the mere information that is valuable; that may be had by asking someone wiser than they, but the inquiring and sympathetic spirit is one’s own.”
What is Nature Study? Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1904.
love this.
Wise beyond her years and time. A lovely, still true, quote.