Quotes About Wonder

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. The purpose of science is to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate that mystery. To always use it in a context where we are helping people in trying to resist the forces of ideology that we are all familiar with.

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

There are other themes for poetry besides immersion in the Will, my friends. The love of person for person, the joy of defending one's home, the wonder of standing naked beneath the fiery stars—" The invader laughed. "Can it be that Earth fell so swiftly because its only poets were poets of acquiescence to destiny?

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em, said Captain Jim. When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,' murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom 'home' must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

What a splendid day!' said Anne, drawing a long breath. 'Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this?

Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley

One can't stay sad for long in such an interesting world, can one?

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view

The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that…