Rachel Carson Sense Of Wonder Quotes

#1. Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

Sara Sheridan

#2. She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. 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

#5. I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.

John Corey Whaley

#6. For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rachel Carson

#7. The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.

Steve Pavlina

#8. If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

William Feather

#9. The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.

Richard Hilfiger

#10. It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Rachel Carson

#11. The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.

Lesley Pearse

#12. When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell you. You have no way of checking up on them. You have no way of deciding whether there is any truth in what they are saying.

Howard Zinn

#13. If I had influence with the good fairy ... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

Rachel Carson

#14. When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?

Ben Carson