Quotes About Wonder

And when I'm with you, she said, I feel as if I were stuffed with—oh, with stars.

but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.

Christopher loved her with the passion of youth, of imagination, of poetry, of all the fresh beginnings of wonder and worship that have been since love first lit his torch and made in the darkness a great light.

Can one be bored in a world so wonderful?

How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending. Sitting by my pansy beds, with the slow clouds floating leisurely past, and all the clear day before me, I look on at the hot scramble for the pennies of existence and am lost in wonder at the vulgarity that pushes, and cringes, and tramples, untiring and unabashed. And when you have got your pennies, what then?

oh, wide and splendid world! How good it is to look sometimes across great spaces, to lift one's eyes from narrowness, to feel the large silence that rests on lonely hills!

Close attention to mollusks and frigate birds and wolves makes us aware not only of our own human identity but also of how much more there is, an assertion of our imperfect hunger for mystery. "Without mystery life shrinks," wrote biologist Edward O. Wilson. "The completely known is a numbing void to all active minds.

The lodging arrangements had certainly been inspired, though whether by an angel or an imp remained to be seen.

And are you thinking, Hugh, what I am thinking?

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles, And he was comforted and entertained, and fell asleep again readily, feeling that all was well with a world he had always know to be peculiar and perverse.

The manifold gifts of God are there to be delighted in, to fall short of joy would be ingratitude.

Punctul final al c?l?toriei lor era un castel în apropierea c?rora se aflau ele?tee. Au ajuns la aceste ele?tee într-o minunat? dup?-amiaz? de var? târzie. Cerul era atât de albastru încât Gottfried nu s-a jenat s?-i spun? tat?lui: "Uite ce albastru e cerul aici".

Charles Darwin, on first seeing these waves breaking on Tierra del Fuego in 1833, wrote in his diary:

Thousands of penguins dotted the pack in every direction

For I dipp'd into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dewFrom the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

I found Him in the shining of the stars,I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,But in His ways with men I find Him not.

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Now, if God made the clouds so beautiful, did He not mean us to gaze upon them and be thankful for them?

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own.