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“In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.”

Sleep Silence Wonder Moon Apples Corridors Orchard

Author:John Drinkwater

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

Soul Religion Religious Wonder Beauty Moon Worship Creator Admire My Soul Sunset Imperfect Metaphysics Beautiful Sunset

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.”

Firsts Looks Space Cities Wonder Generations Planets Walking Lucky Moon Achievement Appreciation Broke Accomplishment Assured Descendants Star Gazing Audacity

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.”

Bigs Light Able Wonder Imagine Moon Appreciate Paint Mysterious Glorious Colour Yellow Moonlight Full Moon

Author:Arthur Lismer

“The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.”

Made Beautiful Black Wonder Imagine Sky Moon Impression Desert Excitement Contrast Vivid Vibrancy

Author:Charles Duke

“Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe - a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system.”

Years Two Body Light Hours Space Wonder Four Planets Fit Moon Elements Intellectual Independent Worthy Giants Awe Twelve Truck Exquisite Solar System Complementary Pickups Pickup Trucks

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The moon is bleached as white as wool, And just dropping under; Every star is gone but three, And they hang far asunder,-- There's a sea-ghost all in gray, A tall shape of wonder!”

Three Stars White Wonder Gone Sea Shapes Moon Ghost Tall Gray Twilight Dropping Wool

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.”

Men Seems Wonder Mankind Moon Mass Contemporary Seats Unnecessary Woe Thyself Grandeur Hereditary Saturn Duplicate

Book:Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

“You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.”

Looks Earth Night Stars Wonder Sky Planets Moon Romantic Look Up Cosmos Romantic Love Planet Earth Night Sky Most Romantic

Author:Tom Hanks

“Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, 'That's interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it's water weight. Maybe it's my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.' I know it's not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat-and definitely without missing a meal.”

“...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.”

Made War Soul Done Whole Shows Can Do Fiction Wonder Adventure Moon Whole Life Civil War Receiving Immense Infancy Prerequisites

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.”

Ifs Knows Mind Littles Seems Spiritual Simple Company Wonder Nice Sky Type Moon Devil Asking Details Guidance Orthodox Witch Spiritual Guidance Good Witch

Author:Sybil Leek

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, ‘Life will never be the same.’ Because there had never been anyone like you ever in the world.”

World Night Stars Born Wonder Wind Like You Moon

Book:On the Night You Were Born

Source: On the Night You Were Born