Quotes About Childhood

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

May books and nature be their early joy!

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.

I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world