Quotes About Wonder

There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled...

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was.

A giant magic mouth appeared.

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

When something wonderful happens...it is to be cherished in the heart and in the mind. We must not be afraid of the wonderful things, nor must we let others laugh them away from us. Only thus do we learn how to hold our dreams.

some things are too wonderful even for a child, and freedom's one of them

The long, slow, sweet summer that had filled us with peace was drawing to a close. The breezes might still blow warm, but around the edges of our world was a "last-time" feeling. This special kind of loveliness, these rich offerings of pasture and wood lot could not go on forever. I wanted to tuck it all inside me--the wonder of it and our own deep delight--so it would last through the winter and until the year turned again to spring.

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

One travels to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does.

Who but a God Could draw from light and moisture, heat and cold, And fashion in earth's mould, A multitude of blooms to deck one sod?

the dolphins stitch sky to sea.

fairy tales are about ordinary men and women in extraordinary circumstances.

It's so weird all the different names they have for groups of animals. They have pride of lions, school of fish, rack of lamb. . . .

I just wish we could hold on to that sense of wonder because sometimes we don't notice some of the most incredible things in the world. We walk by beautiful flowers and trees every day without looking at them. We rush through our day without even saying hi to most of the people we see. We take a lot for granted, and I think that's why some people say it's better to live each day as our last. That way we might start appreciating more things around us.

Magick is everywhere Brooke, sometimes you simply have to have an open heart to experience it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie.

Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home — not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

Shall we be honest about this? The mind needs wild animals. The body needs the trek that takes it looking for them.

Il mare turchese costituisce un orizzonte che esalta i contorni e le tinte di ogni altro elemento del paesaggio [...] Il mare ospita altri colori per cui nessuno ha un nome.

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

People should have all their big adventures while they're still under the age of fourteen. If you don't, you start to lose your passion for big adventures. It just begins to fade away bit by bit and then you forget you ever wanted adventures in the first place.

I trust the red sun setting, the leafless November trees. On Monday morning I look foward fearlessly to Friday's eve. But humans are not as reliable as nature, as trees. I wonder if you'll come back; I trust only that you leave.