23 Mar 2015

Last week’s Thought drew a response quoting from Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring”, published in 1962. Rachel, a marine biologist, advanced the environmental movement with this book. Here is an earlier quotation by her:

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.”

Rachel Carson (1907-1964; John Burroughs Medal acceptance speech, 1952)

8 Dec 2014

This quotation about Christmas could refer either to the religious or secular aspect:

“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it [is] born our art, our science, our religion.”

Ralph W Sockman
(Now to Live!, Kessinger Publishing, 2005)

20 - 27 Dec 2009

We often say that Christmas is for children, but perhaps this Christmas we can all find again that sense of wonder which we admire in children but which we can easily loose as adults:

"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion."

Ralph W Sockman (1889-1970; US theologian and pastor; from 'Now to Live!', Kessinger Publishing).

What does Christmas mean to you? See Blog below.