as a child , I find this magazine when I could not pronounce `` geographic '' , and adore the brilliant photography , scenery , strange-looking people and place , and be soon struggle to understand the text . my imagination be seize by the Mayans , by the Caves of Lascaux , and always by dinosaur and the other exotic plant and animal they show I . when I be a teenager my parent let I deface they old magazine to illustrate my papers on India , Japan , and anthropology . I want to be a archeologist until I find out I would have to learn a lot of language , so history be a better choice for I . travel , geology , photography , and read become passion . even as a adult , I sit down with the magazine and read it cover to cover the day it arrive , no matter what else I be read then . Whenever I stumble on really old copy -lrb- the magazine be well over a century old -rrb- , I read they to see how the magazine 's point of view have develop . this magazine have truly enriched my life . my parent try I out on various other magazine on nature , but this one be the real deal , and never talk down to I . if you be interested in the world , the universe , the past , the future , and in life , this be the magazine for you . even though they have NG magazine for various age of child now , a curious , eager child could appreciate the real one by ten .