Quotes About Awe

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

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.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

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

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

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

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

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.

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

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

The wonders of nature are endless.