“Oh, to be in England now that April's there.”
Robert Browning
SpringLonging
Amazing Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · AMAZING
Amazing Quotes
Read 200 amazing quotes about wonder, the universe, nature and the miracles of everyday life from Shakespeare, Newton, Whitman, Emerson and more.
“Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: but when the leaves hang trembling, the wind is passing through.”
Christina Rossetti
WindMystery
“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, and what can be the use of him is more than I can see.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
ChildhoodWonder
“Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at!”
Lewis Carroll
NonsenseFunny
“'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.”
Lewis Carroll
NonsenseImagination
“The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat.”
Edward Lear
NonsenseAdventure
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!”
Jane Taylor
StarsChildhood
“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”
Mark Twain
StarsWonder
“The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder and worship, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye.”
Thomas Carlyle
WonderPerception
“Colours are the deeds of light, its deeds and sufferings.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LightColor
“The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.”
Johannes Kepler
NatureDiscovery
“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”
Galileo Galilei
ScienceDiscovery
“The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the mind may most completely appreciate the infinite works of nature.”
Leonardo da Vinci
EyesNature
“Delight itself is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.”
Charles Darwin
NatureDiscovery
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
John Muir
MountainsAdventure
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
John Muir
NatureGratitude
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
John Muir
UnityNature
“The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.”
Kabir
LoveInfinite
“Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not.”
Rabindranath Tagore
FriendshipFaith
“This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.”
The Bible (Psalm 118:23)
MiraclesFaith
“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things.”
The Bible (Isaiah 40:26)
CreationStars
“I did not know what the future held of marvel or surprise for me.”
Helen Keller
FutureDiscovery
“Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen.”
L. M. Montgomery
OceanBeauty
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.”
William Shakespeare
NatureFlowers
“He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
BeautyFaith