“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be… When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner"… I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”

Source: "Freedom to learn" (1969), p.236.
Source: A Way of Being

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American psychologist 1902–1987

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