"Thus, as children, you experienced two of the most important things men ever know - the wonder of life and the wonder of the universe, the wonder of life from within the wonder of the universe. More important, you knew them not from books, not from lectures, but simply from living among them. Most important, you knew them with reverence and awe - that reverence and awe that has died out of the modern world and been replaced by man's monkeylike amazement at the cleverness of his own inventive brain."
Whittaker Chambers