Quotes About Wonder

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration.

Treasures come in so many ways: The sun that lights the cloudy days, a rose that blooms within an hour. a baby that staring with a wandering gaze, a dolphin's dance on ocean waves, a sky full of snowflakes of rarest form, a beautiful white and peaceful dove.

When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.

I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.

I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'

When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all the kids sat on the floor and watched 'The Neverending Story.' Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be: sitting cross legged on the floor listening to a never-ending story. Page after page.

I love watching the sunrise and sunset and the sky, the birds.

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

My favorite thing to see that I've been surprised at is watching the moon rises and moon sets that just move so fast it's like it jumps off of the horizon and up and over us.

The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

The first time you catch a fish, it's amazing. You make contact with this whole other world that exists, hidden, under the water.

I always wanted to do magic tricks - I feel like that could be the the next wave.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.

There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.