{"quotes":[{"text":"You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.","author":"Frédéric Gros","tags":["adventure","art","awe","beauty","discovery","earth","explore","freedom","fresh-air","get-outside","hikes","hiking","joy","movement","nature","our-planet","outdoors","outdoors-church","outside","peace","philosophy","pilgrim","pilgrimage","poetry","serenity","visual-poetry","walking","walks","wonder"],"id":1460,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Gros"},{"text":"The world is such a wonderful place to wander throughWhen you've got someone you love to wander along with you.","author":"Man on the man","tags":["love","wonder"],"id":1715,"author_id":"Man+on+the+man"},{"text":"Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of an entire planet by exploiting a loophole with air pressure, and it flies across distances that would take months or years to cross by any means of travel that has been significant for more than a century or three. You hurtle above the earth at enough speed to kill you instantly should you bump into something, and you can only breathe because someone built you a really good tin can that has seams tight enough to hold in a decent amount of air. Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears, and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies.But get on any flight in the country, and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who, in the face of all that incredible achievement, will be willing to complain about the drinks.The drinks, people.That was me on the staircase to Chicago-Over-Chicago. Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.But all I could think to say, between panting breaths, was, 'Yeah. Sure. They couldn’t possibly have made this an escalator.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["commonplace","discontent","magic","plane","remarkable","wonder"],"id":1747,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.","author":"Liam Neeson","tags":["nature","wonder "],"id":2330,"author_id":"Liam+Neeson"},{"text":"I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.","author":"R.J. Palacio","tags":["beauty","bullying","r-j-palacio","wonder"],"id":4065,"author_id":"R.J.+Palacio"},{"text":"Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?'I don't know. I don't think so.'Then how do people recognize each other?'I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?","author":"R.J. Palacio","tags":["death","heaven","love","wonder"],"id":4746,"author_id":"R.J.+Palacio"},{"text":"What if stars were the glimmering tears of a giant, welling in his cheeks, waiting to fall at the first tender stroke of emotion? What if the moon were a wide-open eye gazing down on our tiny, little world and its tiny, little inhabitants as they rush to and fro in pursuit of tiny, little dreams? What if the sun were the glowing heart of a great beast, pumping hot blood to keep him alive while providing warmth for our pitiful world? Ahhh, imagination; it is a wondrous thing!","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["imagination","imagining","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","what-if","wonder","wondering"],"id":5596,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"We write to rekindle the inner spirit.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["imagination","inner-strength","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life-philosophy","positive-attitude","spirit","spiritual-sayings","thoughts","wise-words","wonder","write","writing-life"],"id":6113,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Sometimes it's good to start over.","author":"R.J. Palacio","tags":["inspirational","julian","palacio","precept","wonder"],"id":6495,"author_id":"R.J.+Palacio"},{"text":"Its a beautiful thing in my mind, to be involved with oneself, not in vanity, but in wonder, who knew such a small head could be big enough to contain reality itself. We really must give ourselves more credit than we do.","author":"Andrew Kadziolka","tags":["wonder"],"id":7738,"author_id":"Andrew+Kadziolka"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":792,"pages":80,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}