sources of our strength

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
disenchantment of later years, the sterile preoccupation
with things that are artificial, the alienation from the
sources of our strength.

~Rachel Carson