Wonder Quotes

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."

Walt Streightiff

"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement."

Rachel Carson

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."

Rachel Carson

"Children see magic because they look for it."

Christopher Moore

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”

“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

“Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.”

“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before. Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“The study of nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic.”

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.”

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”

“We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play.”

“The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”

“In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being.”

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”