Children's Corner
Imagination is more important that knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Albert Einstein (Scientist (1867-1934)
Welcome to the Children’s Corner, a Natural Resource Project from the League of Women Voters of Chester County PA.
We invite you to explore the wonders of preservation and creation with us. We are happy to present you with the line drawing "Preservation is in your Hands”. This artwork can be downloaded and shared with your family, organization and classroom.
Come celebrate with crayon, paint or pencil the wonders of mother nature!
A WONDERFUL STORY
Most of the time it seems that every contact a human has with an animal results in the animal’s abuse or exploitation or death, and the animal’s response (all too understandably) is fear and flight. That is why the following true story is wonderful:
A trio of divers came upon a whale completely enmeshed in fishing line. He was wound in it so tightly that he could hardly move and certainly couldn’t feed. Starvation for him was certain.
The divers, being humane fellows, studied how they could help him. They had knives. They could cut the fishing line and pull it off him, but to do so they would have to come within reach of his powerful body, particularly his tail.
They decided that they had to take that chance and very cautiously started to cut the line around his head. The whale seemed to know what they were doing, looked at them with his bright little eyes, and stayed perfectly still.
The divers worked down along his body and finally reached his strong, crippling tail. Still the whale remained quiet. When the last bit of fishing line was pulled free, he gave what was, for him, a controlled swish and swam away.
The divers thought that was the last of him and were headed towards their boat, when they saw him turn and move back in their direction. They stopped and faced him.
The whale glided quietly up to each person, paused for a moment, fins gently moving, seeming to nod his head in a thank-you, and then approached the next man.
When he had visited each diver, he swam rapidly out of sight.
Story retold by Ginnie Newlin
Sharing Nature with children
Wonder and Reverence
“ The child is soft, his flesh is tender. Sun,moon,rain,wind and silence all descend upon him. The child devours the world greedily, assimilates it and turns it into a child. I remember sitting on the doorstep of our home when the Greek sun was blazing, the world fragrant with basil and lemon. Shutting my eyes I would hold out my palms and wait. God always came as long as I remained a child. He never deceived me - he always came, a child like myself, and deposited his toys in my hands-sun, moon, wind, silence. Though I did not know this I possessed some of the his omnipotence; I too created the world as I wanted it. I was as soft as dough: so was the world.”
Nikos Kazantzakis Report to Greco
