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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's
desire to understand. --Neil Armstrong
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can
no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed. --Albert Einstein
We wake, if ever at all, to mystery. --Annie Dillard
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious,
thought begins. --Albert Schweitzer
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not
the choice. You must accept it. The only choice is how.
--Henry Ward Beecher
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. --Augustine
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or
sailed to unchartered land, or opened a new doorway for
the human spirit.-- Helen Keller
The winds of God are always blowing, but you must set
the sails. –Unknown
[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else
revelation.-- C.S. Lewis
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire
with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.--
Johnathan Swift
He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads
and the wall on which he leans. --Kahlil Kibran
When we understand the outside of things, we think we
have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined,
suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to
the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the
conscience and heart. -- George MacDonald
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we
ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it
knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us
to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We
are much more comfortable when we are assured that the
sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble
with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think
that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't.
The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing
in the universe is. --Robert Farrer Capon
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of
interpretation. --George Eliot
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle
to penetrate the dark veil. -- Benjamin Disraeli
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It
does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the
chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why
is it beautiful? --Annie Dillard
Wonder is retained by wise pondering. --Ravi Zacharias
Look at those cows and remember that the greatest
scientists in the world have never discovered how to
make grass into milk.---Michael Pupin
If your heart is straight with God, then every creature
will be to you a mirror of life and a book of holy
doctrine. No creature is so little or so mean as not to
show forth and represent the goodness of God. –Thomas
A’Kempis
The Earth laughs in flowers. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the
metaphysics of books.--Walt Whitman
You will find something more in woods than in books.
Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never
learn from masters. --Saint Bernard
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find
reserves of strength that will endure as long as life
lasts.--Rachel Carson
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration
and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on
them: the starry heavens without and the moral law
within. --Immanuel Kant
I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary
excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be
lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy
and steeped with God that the question is hard to
answer.--John Muir
Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not
a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. --Henry David
Thoreau
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but
what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. --
Diane Ackerman
Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop
dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic
than any dream made or paid for in factories. -- Ray
Bradbury
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