This article endeavours to visualise the thoughts of children about a specially selectedsubject, namely the environment. The aim is to make this thinking visible and to interpretthe meaning of these thoughts. The theoretical starting points for the study are to befound within the phenomenology of the lifeworld. The study is based on empirical materialconsisting of interviews with sixteen children, and the interviews were carried out ontwo occasions with all sixteen persons. During the interview analysis eight themesemerged consisting of thoughts which focus on the following perspectives: pragmaticperspectives, teaching-and-learning perspectives, responsibility perspectives, emotionalperspectives, future and visionary perspectives, philosophical perspectives, aestheticperspectives and romantic perspectives. The thoughts about the environment, whichhave emerged in this study have many nuances and are multi-faceted. If these thoughts are to be taken seriously, it is necessary in the teaching situation to take the thinking ofyoung citizens into account.