Quotes About Wonder

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'

One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'

How sweet it is!

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Another thing I noticed as the children wrote was how often they changed their viewing perspectives. A child rarely looks at his world straight on. He lies flat on his back in the middle of a field, or peeks out from a hiding place, or climbs a tree and watches the scene from above.

Bookbag, Pocketshoe.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.

The world is far bigger than we believe," he murmured. "What more could we see if we but looked?

He wanted to see the world through her eyes, where simple things like oak paneling and stone bridges were marvels.

Miracles do happen, Miss Munroe, if we believe in them.

There are two ways of looking at the sky;you can wonder why its blue or wonder what you can do with a blue sky!Learn to take the positive approach always.

Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.