Quotes About Wonder

O Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire! Robert Browning

I know one fortunate little boy whose parents told him the facts of life so satisfactorily, he said in the next breath, "Now tell me how they make peanut butter."),

Flight is not the astonishing thing. I have always thought that the miracle of birds is not that they fly, but that they touch down.

Emily Williamson never thought she would find commitment so liberating, that her conviction to her cause could promote such happiness within her. She stands in the London sunshine, watching Mrs. Phillips model as a heron, and she feels nothing but gratitude and wonder at the beauty of life.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

children treasure the hope that they might be like the children in books: secretly magical, part of some deeper, mysterious world that makes them something out of the ordinary.

When I saw Jurassic Park in the cinema something unexpected happened when the first dinosaur came on screen: I felt a huge, hopeful pressure in my chest and my eyes filled with tears. It was miraculous: a thing I'd seen representations of since I was a child had come alive.

Someone once told me that every writer has a subject that underlies everything they write. It can be love or death, betrayal or belonging, home or hope or exile. I choose to think that my subject is love, and most specifically love for the glittering world of non-human life around us.

For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them.

He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles.

I watch the cranes scratching their beaks with their toes and think of how the starling flocks that pour into reed beds like grain turn all of a sudden into birds perching on bowed stems, bright-eyed, their feathers spangled with white spots that glow like small stars. I marvel at how confusion can be resolved by focusing on the things from which it is made. The magic of the flocks is this simple switch between geometry and family.

That was the great puzzle, and it was played out again and again. How hearts do stop.

She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

Aside from infrequent comments ("Cheer up, love," or "It's not Hallo'ween"), no one wondered why a teenager was dressed up as a chic governess. Sylvie approved of Miri, even at the same time as she was confused by her. "It's a style at least," she said, and took off her rope of pearls and looped them around Miri's neck.

In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, "This is land," and point, and "This is sky," and point, but the eyes can't discover the dividing line.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

I become ocean, mercury, silver shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.

How can something be so wonderful and yet so disappointing at the same time?

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, la que tiene en sí el único milagro viviente que existe en la tierra.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.