Quotes About Wonder

Vas a conocer la selva más misteriosa del mundo, Alexander. Allí hay lugares donde los espíritus se aparecen a plena luz del día.

De aquí para adelante es territorio mágico, Alexander.

Aymaras—"children

Even in the middle of the madness there remained that true and natural beauty, and it took my mind away from my current situation as I marveled at this sight.

I think it's important to have scaling challenge because there are players who I feel play 'Dragon Age' for the wonder, story and exploration but wouldn't enjoy getting their butts handed to them. We do still have easy mode - it's not a pure story mode in that there's zero combat, but it's not super-challenging.

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?

London Zoo is amazing. I want to take my child there so that she can feel the awe and wonder I felt (and feel) myself.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Sweetest li'l feller, everybody knows; Dunno what to call him, but he's mighty lak' a rose; Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.

Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability!-Life in the making?

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tiding, Yes, the Lord has risen today.