Quotes About Wonder

the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

It is a century now since Darwin gave us the first glimpse of the origin of species. We know now what was unknown to all the preceding caravan of generations: that men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution. This new knowledge should have given us, by this time, a sense of kinship with fellow-creatures; a wish to live and let live; a sense of wonder over the magnitude and duration of the biotic enterprise.

A March morning is only as drab as he who walks in it without a glance skyward.

I am well content that it should remain a mystery. What a dull world if we knew all about geese.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

There is a peculiar virtue in the music of elusive birds.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

no te da miedo la locura? —¡Por favor! Es lo único maravilloso en esta sucia vida de mierda.

El misterio es éste: ¿por qué yo quedé mutilada y ella no? Me siento recién salida de una catástrofe. ¿Por qué no olvido? No sé por dónde empezar a olvidar. Aun estoy asombrada de no estar loca. Pero ¿se puede vivir siempre así, asombrada, enloqueciendo de asombro?

El árbol decidió viajar. Cuando logró desprenderse de la tierra, se dio cuenta de que sus ramas eran raíces celestes.

There is a precise instant when the world is marvelous: now.

Afirmo que después del alma humana los objetos más hermosos del Universo serán los navíos espaciales.

The truth was much more beautiful.

In America everything is fantastical.

Un día, los hombres descubrirán un alfabeto en los ojos de las calcedonias, en los pardos terciopelos de la falena, y entonces se sabrá con asombro que cada caracol manchado era, desde siempre, un poema.

A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

Llego a preguntarme a veces si las formas superiores de la emoción estética no consistirán, simplemente, en un supremo entendimiento de lo creado. Un día, los hombres descubrirán un alfabeto en los ojos de las calcedonias, en los pardos terciopelos de la falena, y entonces se sabrá con asombro que cada caracol manchado era, desde siempre, un poema

Don't you wonder sometimes," sang Bowie all the way to Kinshasa, "about sound and vision?

vide quella gran macchina del duomo sola sul piano, come se, non di mezzo a una città, ma sorgesse in un deserto; e fermò su due piedi, dimenticando tutti i suoi guai, a contemplare anche da lontano quell'ottava maraviglia, di cui aveva tanto sentito parlare fin da bambino.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

In a small, excited voice she said, "Adventure awaits.

There're all kinds of magic in the world.

There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.