Built Quote by Tom Stoppard

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

— Tom Stoppard

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't…

— Tom Stoppard

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy…

— Alexander Herzen

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest…

— Maria Montessori

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

— Richard Louv

Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

— Len Goodman

But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying,…

— Doris Lessing

We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature…

— Gordon Neufeld

The Purpose of life is to grow up...

— Mpho Muthige

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits,…

— Aristotle

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

— May-Britt Moser