Al Purdy Quotes

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.

I might not be beautiful, but life certainly is.

It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.