Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”

“We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.”

“When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!”

“We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.”

“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”

“Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.”

“To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.”

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

“For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”