Quotes About Wonder

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

If you go out and watch nature closely, you will find something so joyful that it will completely fill you.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

Human beings are curious by nature.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

The study of nature is a limitless field, the most fascinating adventure in the world.

Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?