If I had influence 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 disenchant-ments of later years  the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial  the alienation from the sources of our strength.
Rachel Carson
self, acceptance