Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. - Rachel Carson

Measured against the vast backdrop of geologic time, the whole era of man seems but a moment-but how portentous a moment!

"If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us."

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.