There are some words that should not be used too much. They can lose their impact through overfamiliarity. Wonder is such a word. But look around, wherever you are. Listen, too. Activate all of the portals to your mind. Open all inward routes through its bony shell. The physical world offers as much wonder as any mind can deal with. Whoever speaks of anything as “only physical” is not sensing very much of what there is in the world to experience. There is nothing “only” about the physical.
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(2008). The Wonder Just Goes On and On. In: Ice, Rock, and Beauty. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73103-2_1
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