Quotes About Wonder

What impressed me most was how hard [Julia Child] worked, how devoted she was to the "rules" of la cuisine française while keeping herself open to creative exploration, and how determined she was to persevere in the face of setbacks. Julia never lost her sense of wonder and inquisitiveness. She was, and is, a great inspiration.

It was in their eyes. They seemed like people who had travelled in space and who had looked upon the immensity of the universe; eternity had moved into them, and taken up residence inside.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Adventure is the seed of discovery.

Pictures that don't make sense are magic. they hold balls of light covered in millions of spells swirled into a cell.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Did you ever see a bee lying drunk on a rose? Lost in the petal, so close you can't see its tiny burrowing. In this way, I hang as I can. As close as I can.

books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to see something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore around it, and before you know it,something worth thinking about to occupy your mind.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

When we would consider the love of God in Christ, we are as one approaching the ocean: he casts a glance on the surface, but the depths he cannot sound." — R. C. C.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.

Nature has the appearance of greatness to man in proportion as she is veiled in mystery; and the ignorant are prone to put faith in everything that borders on the marvellous.

The mind I love must have wild places: a tangled orchard where damsons drop in heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, a chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody has fathomed the depths of... and paths threaeded with flowers planted by the mind." Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnes

Some incredible bit of magic got into my corner of the universe, and i have to trust in the universe that it's happening for a reason

That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.

I once read that life should not be about the number of breaths you take, but the number of moments that take your breath away.

I've always found that the best experiences in life are the ones you didn't plan, the ones you stumble across and they just happen