Quotes About Wonder

But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

I never really understood the word 'loneliness'. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.