Quotes About Awe

I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.

He felt like a pilgrim standing on the shores of Lake Sahara, having walked barefoot over hundreds of miles, yet all the hardships forgotten, filled with only wonder and reverence at the marvel of it all.

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is.

The Tibetans have an exclamatory cry reserved just for when that window opens. The cry is Emaho! which might be loosely rendered "Oh my God! Who would have thought it's this simple!

She raised her head and stared at the birds with him, caught in a web of awe and loneliness.

Awareness of our helplessness and dependence makes us stand in awe before God.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose. Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble, Since there your elements assemble.

She walked as if through a forest. The pillars were furrowed like ancient trees, and into the woods the light seeped, colorful and as clear as song, through the stained-glass windows. High overhead animals and people frolicked in the stone foliage, and angels played their instruments. At an even higher, more dizzying height, the vaults of the ceiling arched upward, lifting the church toward God ... The song cut through her like a blinding light. Now she saw how deep in the dust she lay.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.

When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.