979 Quotes About Wonder

To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination- is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking; but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

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

Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

The wonder in our life should always point the greater wonder of the Father.

Wonders happen either way. With you or without you.

I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.

That was a hell of a thing.