The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.                —Ralph W. Sockman

Life isn’t long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!

—Tasha Tudor

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.       —St. Augustine

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

—Sir Thomas Browne

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

—Helen Keller

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.     —John Muir

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.      —Eden Phillpots

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy — and dull fantasy at that — as the real world is strange and wonderful.                                                                                   —Robert A. Heinlein

The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world unto itself.                                       —Henry Miller

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

Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn’t in your before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.

—Christina Baldwin

You know you’re old when you’ve lost all your marvels.

—Merry Browne