Wonder Quotes

I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing...

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn,...

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your h...

dJack be nimble,Jack be quick,Jack forgot to check if the ice was thick.Emma was still,Emma was late...

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands...

The world, whatever we might think about it terrified by its vastness and by our helplessness in the...

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the univer...

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensat...

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worshi...

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward histo...

For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe...

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Hei...

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children...

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and s...

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...

Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own...

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and ...

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to th...

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratit...

The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winte...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of ...

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dan...

That it’s rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of ext...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the pur...

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was l...

Yesterday I watched a curious nightfall. The cloud ceiling took on a warm tone, deepened, and depart...

Oh, it’s mysterious lamplit evenings, here in the galaxy, one after the other. It’s one of those nig...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accountin...

The remarkable thing about the world of insects, however, is precisely that there is no veil cast ov...

In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. The...

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everythin...

Imagine a forty-five-year-old male fifty feet long, a slim, shiny black animal cutting the surface o...

I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen expose...

Occasionally we glimpse the South Rim, four or five thousand feet above. From the rims the canyon se...

I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon t...

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

The question that naturally occurs is “What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?” Our nearest...

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things o...

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to m...

The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message ...

If you don’t have a sense of wonder it’s like you’re dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be us...

The feeling of loathing had as yet no permanence or strength in the dog’s soul. The newly awakened j...

The world was so beautiful, and there was so much of it: he could gaze forever at the wonder of leav...

He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such tim...

I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were...

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so m...

[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They s...

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little...

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily co...

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy ...

Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twic...

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of...

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fr...

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience...

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstru...

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world...

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, ...

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world al...

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wo...

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverything...

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of ...

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's nev...