“If I had influenced with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.”
Rachel Carson
The Sense of Wonder:
A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children
Aunt Rachel – as I like to call her – didn’t want to teach her nephew Roger names to memorize or worksheets to complete.
She offered him something far rarer and more necessary: the chance to connect with the natural world through direct experience, feeling, and presence.
Every time a child is amazed by something, a relationship is born. And a relationship, if nurtured, becomes respect, care, and responsibility.
This is where ecological education begins: not with facts or rules, but with the deep awareness that every form of life is worthy of attention.
Every gesture of wonder is a small, silent revolution against disenchantment, a promise to keep looking at the world with fresh eyes.
The workshops I create grow from this desire: to invite children to look closely at the world around them, to slow down, to listen to the hidden beauty in every small detail.
I want to accompany children in awakening – or simply rediscovering – their sense of wonder. Because wonder is the first step toward love. And love is the first step toward protection.
Today, childhood risks the extinction of wonder, suffocated by consumerism, haste, and an overload of artificial stimuli.
Bringing children back into nature – and nature back into them – is, for me, both an educational and political act.
Extinction is not only about species, but also about our capacity to see the world with enchanted eyes, and to be moved by its beauty.
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