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Quotes About Wonder

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
~ William Carlos Williams
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.
~ Ella Maillart
Why travel - because the world was meant to be experienced, not imagined.
~ Chris Guillebeau
Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
~ Malik Bendjelloul
Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
~ Alison Lurie
Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?
~ Nick Gordon
Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.
~ David Gerrold
Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.
~ Roman Payne
Love adventurous life.Be passionately curious about exploring new adventures.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known
~ Don George
Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.
~ Pradeepa Pandiyan
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
~ Leonard Cohen
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
~ Amelia Earhart
Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.
~ Reinaldo Arenas
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
~ Anne Lamott
A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.
~ David Douglas
There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.
~ Muriel Barbery
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
~ E. O. Wilson
No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe
~ John Steinbeck
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
~ John Muir
When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.
~ Renzo Piano
I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.
~ Joe Hill