Quotes About Wonder

My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.

At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for a quarter of an inch on parallel tracks. I used to look at it and wonder, 'What will happen?'

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.