It is this way with wonder

From World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil:

It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world. When I teach National Poetry Month visits in elementary schools, I sometimes talk about fireflies to conjure up memory and sensory details of the outdoors. Recently, however, seventeen students in a class of twenty-two told me they had never even seen a firefly -- they thought I was kidding, simply inventing an insect.  So I asked them what they did for fun in that crepuscular-pink time just before dinner. When I was growing up, I played kickball, tag, ridging bikes -- anything, really, until my parents flicked on the porchlight. But the students' most common answer: video games and movies. In other words, they were always indoors. And usually in front of a screen.