Quotes / The World Is Just Awesome

"Mike, let me tell you something. The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it. The way the sun goes down when you're tired, comes up when you want to be on the move. That's real magic. The way a leaf grows. The song of the birds. The way the desert looks at night, with the moon embracing it. Oh, my boy, that's… that's circus enough for anyone. Every time you watch a rainbow and feel wonder in your heart. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand. Every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, you're part of the Circus of Doctor Lao."

—Doctor Lao, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao

"Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in human coupling, millions upon millions of cells compete to create life, for generation after generation until, finally, your mother loves a man, Edward Blake, the Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate, and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds, it's you — only you — that emerged. To distill so specific a form from all that chaos. It's like turning air into gold. A miracle. And so... I was wrong."

—Doctor Manhattan, Watchmen

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

—Henry Miller

"I don't want to live in a world that doesn't have penguins in it!"

—UN Ambassador, Happy Feet

"Now I know that the world is not a mere piece of cloth. It's filled to the brim with some pretty incomprehensible things, but that's what makes it beautiful."

— Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill

"Beautiful...."

— Trinity on her First Time in the Sun, The Matrix Revolutions

"My God. I did not think such things were possible."

— Rajan, Sense8

I love the mountains.
I love the clear blue skies.
I love big bridges.
I love when great whites fly.
I love the whole world.
And all its sights and sounds.

Boom De Yada!
Boom De Yada!
Boom De Yada!
Boom De Yada!

I love the ocean.
I love real dirty things.
I love to go fast.
I love Egyptian kings.
I love the whole world
And all its craziness

Boom De Yada!
Boom De Yada!
Boom De Yada!
Boom De Yada!

I love tornadoes.
I love arachnids.
I love hot magma.
I love the giant squids.
I love the whole world.
It's such a brilliant place.

Boom De Yada!
Boom De Yada!
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Boom De Yada!
Boom De Yada!

— The World Is Just Awesome (Boom De Yada), Discovery Channel

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

— Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

"And I think to myself... what a wonderful world!"

— Bob Thiele, "What a Wonderful World"

"These bugs have such beautiful wings. You could spend a thousand lifetimes staring at water and sand, thinking as hard as you could, and you'd never guess the world had things like these in it."

— The Girl, Time

The world is much too interesting to entertain ennui

And I won't ever play it cool so I won't ever once be bored

— Marian Call, "Nerd Anthem"

All right, I'll admit it. This is pretty cool. It's...amazing. He's amazing.

— Astrid, after riding Toothless with Hiccup for the first time, How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

The seas are sapphires, the fields & forests emeralds. The Himalayas gleam like diamonds. The strange blue world to which my father sent me. If you knew how you are loved, not one of you would raise a hand in rage again.

— Superman, JLA/Hitman

Amy: Why am I here?
The Doctor: Because... I can't see it anymore. I'm 907, and after a while you just can't... see it.
Amy: See what?
The Doctor: Anything. I look at a star, and all I see is a big ball of burning gas. And I know how it began and how it will end. And I was probably there both times. And after a while everything is just stuff. And that is the problem: You make all of space and time into your back yard, and what do you have? A back yard! But you, you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.

— Doctor Who

How could he rationalize the need for adventure to a public made indolent by such everyday luxury? How could he explain the marvels of the universe to those who lived with the everyday miracles of science? The great stone Face of Chakotay that changed expression once a week. The Harrie-Kim who can die numerous times, only to be reincarnated in an immature form. Planets enshrouded by global cities that somehow maintained a breathable atmosphere. The strange yellow words he'd seen floating through a galaxy far, far away. And most mysterious of all—the black monolith in orbit around Jupiter, salvaged by the Space Rangers to serve as a coffee table for the President of Earth himself! At least there was a man who appreciated the wonders of Outer Space!

— Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space

The pale blue light that shone around the edge of the atmosphere over those parts of the Earth for which some daylight still remained, the eerie dance of the Aurora Borealis in the far north, and the stars above, set in the shimmering misty-crown of the Milky Way, shining clearer and brighter than he had ever seen them... Harry shook his head in wonder. He would freely admit that he had seen many things in his young life, both wonderful and terrible, and as a result he was neither easily fazed, nor easily impressed. But this? This took his breath away, and he was glad it did.

—Child of the Storm

What a beautiful fucking day. Nothing beats this shit. Look at that fucking flower. Shit, it's good to be alive.

— A bunny◊, False Knees

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
And the tree-toad is a chef-d’œuvre for the highest,
And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress’d head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

— Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1892 version)

"No matter how much we study, train, and prepare, there will always be situations we weren't ready for. That's the nature of reality. It's sort of neat, when it isn't trying to chew your face off."

—Kevin Price, Imaginary Numbers

"It's... beautiful. All of my readings... Why did none of them warn me the universe is beautiful?"

— Galatea, seeing the stars for the first time, The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!

"If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder."

— Martin Luther

I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying
"I love you"

I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They'll learn much more
Than I'll never know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Oh yeah

—lyrics to "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong

the mere fact anything exists is a miracle in the first place
imagine if nothing ever existed in the universe except for a pebble. its surrounded by nothing and it never does nothing at all. why? why does it exist? THAT is a miracle
and to get from that to chemicals reacting and stars and magnetic fields and whatnot, thats a thousand miracles piled up on top of each other
and to get from that to life that crawls out of the water and gets smart enough to make us and blow our lil tincan asses out here, thats just bein greedy

— Juice, 17776, Chapter 21

"Don't you think this world is incredible. There's so much to it. It's this enormous, complex, interconnected system, and it's all so beautiful. Looking at it is like looking at an intricate tapestry, and trying to describe the design by mapping individual threads."

— Nora, Ever After Academy, Nora episode 6

Planet Earth.
Can't you see?
From volcanos to weather systems, ocean currents to the heat of the sun, these forces allowed life on Earth to flourish.
You are so beautiful to me
You are so beautiful
Join me to discover how these diverse forces work together to keep our planet in perfect balance.
...to me

—A Perfect Planet trailer (narrated by David Attenborough, sung by brooke)

Eda: Up close, the Isles can be slimy-
King: And very stinky.
Eda: And gross. But if you look at it from a different perspective...
Luz: It's beautiful.

— The Owl House

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