If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
~ Rachel Carson
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"Look!! A sea urchin!" the boy exclaimed.
His father chuckled, "That's not a sea urchin. That's a sand bur."
Because the child was so devastated by his father's laughter at the discovery, the child ran away to the sea, adopted raggedy dress and became an urchin himself. He didn't know it at the time, but he was teaching his own father a lesson. A lesson in guilt and tragedy and irony and vocabulary.
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