Suja Pritchard
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
The Power of Imagination
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
Imaginative play is important for child development and adult neurological vitality.
"From a neurological perspective, when children engage in imagination and creativity, their brains are signal processing at a higher level: they are literally seeing, sensing, hearing and feeling more of the world.
Imaginative activities need never be seen as a luxury, but rather a necessity to all-round development."
Check out this site put together for the parents of young children by the BBC.