“I wonder where it will go, whether it will survive, will be cast back here on Rota, or taken hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles to another island in the Pacific. Ten minutes more ad I can no longer see it--it is launched, like a little ship, on its journey on the high seas.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity—of the wonder of innumerable forms of life—has always thrilled me beyond anything…”— Oliver Sacks, en.wikiquote.org
“You wonder about me. I wonder about you. Who are you? And what are you doing?”— Ruth Ozeki, amazon.com
“I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.”— John Wesley, amazon.com
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“I wonder,’ wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not always sure it is right to be safe. . . . Every time a nation which has known freedom loses it, other free nations lose something, too.”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well.”— Dave Matthews, youtube.com
“Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com
“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com
“Two things inspire me to awe: the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.”— Immanuel Kant, amazon.com
“Have you ever wondered if someone made it to their destination? There there, they're there.”— Erethiel117, reddit.com
“Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.”— Donald Miller, amazon.com