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      • Pioneering conservationist Rachel Carson, who sparked the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring, wrote a little known essay a few years earlier called “The Sense of Wonder.” The piece describes her attempts to help foster and preserve her young nephew, Roger’s, sense of wonder and awe in the face of the natural world.
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  2. The Sense of Wonder is a refreshing antidote to indifference and a guide to capturing the simple power of discovery that Carson views as essential to life. In her insightful new introduction, Linda Lear remembers Rachel Carson's groundbreaking achievements in the context of the legendary environmentalist's personal commitment to introducing ...

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  3. Jun 19, 2022 · The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson, best known for the environmental classic Silent Spring (1962) was published in 1965, a year after her death. This widely praised book was intended to be enjoyed by children and parents together, was expanded from an essay Carson wrote in the 1950s.

  4. Jul 14, 2017 · Rachel Carson yearns to endow each child with an “indestructible” sense of wonder that can be carried into adulthood. In some sense, this sense of wonder is indestructible, still with all of us,...

  5. Rachel Carson. A childs world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  6. May 17, 2022 · Wonder led to a sense of the beautiful, which led to the pursuit of knowledge about the object that triggered the feeling in the first place. Children possessed this “clear-eyed vision” innately,...

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  7. Sep 27, 2019 · In the 1940s, Rachel Carson began developing an ethic of wonder that stood at the centre of her ecological philosophy. Artist Bob Hines and Rachel Carson pictured conducting marine biology research along the Atlantic coast ca.1952.

  8. Apr 21, 1998 · The Sense of Wonder is a refreshing antidote to indifference and a guide to capturing the simple power of discovery that Carson views as essential to life. In her insightful new introduction, Linda Lear remembers Rachel Carson's groundbreaking achievements in the context of the legendary environmentalist's personal commitment to introducing ...