Quotes About Wonder

I hope to find Area X in Area X.

Do you think Area X builds spaceships, too? Do you think Area X traverses interstellar space? Wormholes? Think of something more subtle, something peering through what we think of as reality.

He had not expected any of it to be beautiful, but it was beautiful.

Jeff VanderMeer

Should she somehow think that what came next

With sunset came a premonition of beauty: The pre-dusk sky already had so many stars in it. Before he activated the lens, he sat there for a few minutes, staring up at them, at the deep blue of the sky that framed them. At such moments, he felt as if he really did live on the edge of the known world. As if he was alone, in the way he wanted to be alone: when he chose to be and not when the world imposed it on him.

There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know.

There would be no moon maps in Frank Borman's house, however

Surround yourself with things that amaze you, and you'll forget about comparing yourself to others.

Flakes fell softly, covering the already frozen castle grounds. When she stuck out her tongue, she could feel the flakes land on it. The little droplets of frozen water had the same name she did: Snow. Was she named for the snow or was the snow named for her? That's what she wondered. She was a princess, so the weather could have been named after her. Then again, snow had been around a lot longer than she had. She was only seven.

Lost in the Library

buns or shoe leathers. Riveting stuff. I can't imagine what the FTRS

Do either of you like...dragons The girl with the ribbon lights up like a firefly. I've always wanted to meet a dragon! Bingo!

Maybe if you were an alicorn like Twilight Sparkle and could just fly there.

How could we imagine that a God who created wildflowers and waterfalls and pine trees and hummingbirds and warm sand and mountain ranges and tulips thinks beauty is nonsense? He

What about Wee Squirl? --Rose MacDonell

Marvel at the small wonders around you every day.

you are surrounded by unthinkable miracles and opportunities.

We're on a planet that somehow knows how to rotate on its axis and follow a defined path while it hurtles through space! Our hearts beat! We can see! We have love, laughter, language, living rooms, computers compassion, cars, fire, fingernails, flowers, music, medicine, mountains, muffins! We live in a limitless Universe overflowing with miracles! The fact that we aren't stumbling around in an inconsolable state of sobbing awe is appalling.

And so it was for a long time. Some wise men wrote down the story of those voyages and of that land, and people read the tale and liked it, but no one remembered where the place was. It all seemed like a fairy tale. Long afterwards, however, men began to read those stories with wide-open eyes and to wonder.

Tiny fairywren Who is your father? *snake chomp* Guess we'll never know

The real naturalist should be a Boswell, and every creature should be, for him, a Dr. Johnson.

Jennifer Ackerman

Teach me about the delights," Sinclair said after a time, his voice low. "I can't see the wonders anymore. Show me what you see, Bertie. Please.