Quotes About Wonder

The trees were almost bare, making their branches appear as cracks in the cosmos.

Travel backward to a lost land heard of in childhood; find it to be incomprehensible, rich, strange; then discover it is the place from which you set out.

She wondered whether her head were so big as to be able to contain all this starry universe, or whether the universe were so little that it would fit within the compass of her human head.

The story of the house all lit, the house of four floors, seven chimneys, three hundred and sixty-five stairs, fifty-two doors, traveled far; they were all travelers then. It

She slipped from her tall chair (why don't we remember living in a world where everything was absurdly outsize, tables and chairs and spoons, door knobs too high to reach, too fat to grasp?) and went to look.

What if it were true. It could not be: but what if it were. Strange but true. A sudden partisanship arose within Pierce's heart, a longing so deep and simple that he could not even be puzzled by it: a longing indistinguishable from grief, that the story ought to be true, and could not be.

She marched up to it anyway, reaching it with surprising suddenness, the corridor was shorter than it seemed, or seemed longer than it was, whichever; and the door at its end was even smaller than the one she'd come in by. If this keeps up, she thought, I'll be crawling next…. On the door, in fresh white paint in an antique style, the number 001 was painted. Laughing

I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.' Freeman Dyson24

stories are everywhere, just waiting to be found...

tales of Castle Perilous are as endless as the worlds it contains. Only a relative few of them have been set down.… … Which brings

wonder is the mother of all science.

Go, and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me, where all past years are,Or who cleft the Devil's foot.Teach me to hear mermaids singing.

O my America! my new-found land.

All measure, and all language, I should pass, Should I tell what a miracle she was.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd.

GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

This is what I like about life at sea. It's one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.