Quotes About Wonder

and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

All that we behold is full of blessings.

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

God continues to work miracles in my life.

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at....

On my way home I didn't walk on the ground. I was way up in the clouds just skipping along.

A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain...

As Albert Einstein put it, "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.

It is, as you can imagine, a genuine problem: I would never put up with less. It is a rather complicated problem, and my friends, or at least the well-meaning among them, advise me to solve it. But I cannot make up my mind to do so, I have gotten used to it. Sometimes, I wonder: what would I be without my problem? And of course I am unable to respond.

Who can explain the reasons for a daydream?

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

he seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

It seemed as though the secret of the universe had miraculously appeared right here at our feet, as though God's notebook had opened under our bench.

Ribbon, bell, emerald, stamp. The words that came from my mother's mouth thrilled me, like the names of little girls from distant countries or new species of plants. As I listened to her talk, it made me happy to imagine a time when all these things had a place here on the island.

Matematyka jest jak gwiazdy, nie da si? wyja?ni? ich pi?kna.

and he seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

and I found myself unable to resist turning around to see whether my footsteps were following me as I made my way across the field of white.

I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first—among all the things that have vanished from the island.

Meine Weltkugel war bestimmt nicht rund gewesen, sondern wie ein Abendhimmel, in dem die fremden Orte wie Feuerwerk blitzten.

Sunset, springtime, the blue of the sea, the stars in the sky, all the things that entrance us exert their magic only in the orbit if woman.

An aurora borealis rises over festive orchards; the branches of the trees immediately begin to bud, to blossom, to bend under the weight of their fruit. The child runs through the wild grass, heading for the Wall. It collapses like a big cardboard box, broadening the horizon and exorcising the fields, which extend over the plains as far as the eye can see...Run...And the child runs, laughing all the while, his arms spread out like a bird's wings.

Banul n-o fi avand miros, dar, Doamne! ce bine miroase.