Quotes About Wonder

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.