Adult Quote by Natasha Trethewey

While most kids turned their heads in disgust as a plateful of broccoli landed before them, I ate what I was given. My mum…

— John Whaite

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts,…

— Chris Ware

Plants are as responsive to thought as children.

— Luther Burbank

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

— Jonathan Kozol

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a…

— Frederick Lenz

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused…

— Keith Jarrett

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them.…

— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

— Pete Docter

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing…

— Jay Griffiths

When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show…

— Gaston Bachelard

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think kids learn from what they see.

— Joe Wicks