Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting