Quotes About Wonder

When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring science of our own. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And

The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch the stars

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. { Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal }

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

It [beauty] had always felt like something I might find, or something I had temporarily lost, or something I was pursuing.

and his wonder at the marks experience has left on her woman's body.

At my audition, I had one of those anxiety visions where you do something totally crazy in your mind, just to torture yourself with the possibility, just to wonder what would happen if you actually did it.

to a child, there is that fulfilment, that sense of endless interest, of 'something going on' and all-sufficing that I, for one, have lost for ever.

Maybe it wasn't about the number; maybe it was about the symbol. Infinity. Maybe because there were infinite questions to ask, maybe because wonder was limitless. There were so many variables so many unknowns.

I'm awestruck that you had warm cabbages sitting around.

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.