Peter Matthiessen Quotes about Children

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Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Children, Men, Old Man

Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.195, Penguin

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.

Peter Matthiessen

Children, Past, Ideas

Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

Peter Matthiessen

Children, Healing, Night

1978 Of the night sky in Nepal. The Snow Leopard,'Northward, October18'.

Peter Matthiessen Quotes about Children

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