I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

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

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

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

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

People never cease to amaze me.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.