“One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever — and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.”
On the Colorado River, in “Down the River with Major Powell”, p. 201
The Journey Home (1977)
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American author and essayist 1927–1989Related quotes
The New England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day http://www.potw.org/archive/potw64.html, st. 1, from Flowers for Children (1844-1846).
1840s
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“He who wonders discovers that this is in itself a wonder.”
Quote of Escher 1959 - in the introduction of M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (1978) p. 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=PJNZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22He+who+wonders+discovers+that+this+is+in+itself+a+wonder%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage - translated from the original book in Dutch: M.C. Escher - Grafiek en Tekeningen, publisher, Koninklijke Erven J.J. Tijl N.V. Zwolle, 1959
1950's
Context: The ideas that are basic to [my work] often bear witness to my amazement and wonder at the laws of nature which operate in the world around us. He who wonders discovers that this is in itself a wonder. By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics.
