One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
Childhood is a short season.
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.