Quotes About Wonder

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

If you love the life very much, you will see that everything is shining, everything is sparkling!

I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

A shivery feeling ran down Ramona's backbone, as if magic were taking place.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

I hung up again and looked at Katz. What is it with this town? I've blown more intelligent life into a handkerchief.

There's something satisfying, I think,' Evans said, 'about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it. It just seems right that an event of that magnitude should be witnessed.

Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is--whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze--perfect.

If there's one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy—something we could all do with more of in our lives.

as the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose." The

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.

There's something satisfying, I think," Evans said, "about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

We live on a planet that more or less has an infinite capacity to surprise.

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.