Quotes About Wonder

The most beautiful highway in the world

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?

said, "but I think you and your camera are pretty amazing, too.

No matter how long I linger with any being, I cannot exhaust the dynamic enigma of its presence.

It's weird, you know, the way so many people accept the notion that stone is inanimate, that rock doesn't move. I mean, really, this here cliff moves me every time that I see it.

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

I floated out of the hospital that day shaking my head and thinking, There has to be a God. I didn't know who or what he was, but when I looked into my son's face, I knew he had to exist.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don't know about and don't understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

of a munchkin. And it took her so long to walk up the drive that, by the time she was actually inside the house, Alfie wondered if it was too late for his parents to go out.

To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience.

I wonder why things have to change

Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

How do you look upon other men as astonishing organisms? Only by so regarding yourself.

The line in this song that slayed me the first time I heard it, and slays me every time I hear it, is 'I cannot explain the way that You came to love me, except to say that nothing is beyond You.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.