Wonder of the World Quotes

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?