Quotes About Wonder

wonder, if we in the U.S. stopped buying cocaine and stopped selling heavy weapons across the border, what would happen then? So easy to talk about them. What does it mean when they are also us?

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Pobre de aquel, que no hizo de su infancia Una leyenda.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Un escritor es, más que nada, alguien que posee el don del asombro y sabe transmitirlo. El don de singularizar lo que ve. Porque las cosas esconden siempre algún secreto, un detalle, algo que las hace únicas y que el artista debe descubrir.

La memoria. Sacca piena di cianfrusaglie che rotolano fuori per caso e finiscono col meravigliarti, come se non fossi stato tu a raccoglierle, a trasformarle in oggetti preziosi.

Ed è proprio questa la sensazione che prevale: di poter continuare a camminare all'infinito senza giungere da nessuna parte, oppure in luoghi mai nemmeno immaginati, nascosti. La meraviglia ti aspetta dietro ogni angolo, in fondo a ogni vicolo

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

My faith in miracles rests also on my faith in Christ -- he himself a greater miracle by far than any attributed to him.

The child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

They are the adventurers with no goal other than the everyday joy of discovery – they are galumphing.

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must resort what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

All you had to do was look up at the stars at night or at a baby's face to know God existed.