Quotes About Wonder

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Patagonia, like Mr Kipling, really does make exceedingly good lakes.

Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.

There was another intelligence out there, close enough to touch. And even if they were now gone, then the mere existence of their handiwork was wonder enough to fundamentally change humanity's view of the universe.

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail.

Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.

It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

As a kid, I read 'Peter Pan,' and I really wanted to be him.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Nature is so phenomenal.

An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.

Healing and miracles have been a mystery to men of all times. To some, the phenomenon is frightening, while others find it exhilarating.

The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.