- A GUIDE TO WONDROUS THINGS

For Wonder Seekers and Wonder Makers

EXPLORE

The Neuroscience of Awe and Wonder

BOOKS TO INTRODUCE THE NEUROSCIENCE OF AWE

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner

The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion That Will Change the Way You Live, Learn, and Lead by Monica C. Parker

VIDEOS TO INTRODUCE THE NEUROSCIENCE OF AWE

Why Your Brain Needs Awe and Wonder with Dr. Dacher Keltner

Inspirational Books on Awe and Wonder

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May
In Awe: Rediscover Your Childlike Wonder to Unleash Inspiration, Meaning, and Joy by John O'Leary
Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy by Andrea Scher

Inspiring Wonder in the Natural World

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds by Chris Chester
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children by Rachel Carson
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature edited by Lorraine Anderson
Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future by Jim Robbins
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Fumi Nakamura
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry by Maria Popova (Author), Ofra Amit (Illustrator)

Poems to Spark Our Sense of Wonder

Maya Angelou: "Amazement Awaits" "A Brave and Startling Truth"
Wendell Berry: "Grace" "The Peace of Wild Things" "What We Need Is Here" "Woods"
William Blake: "Eternity" "Spring" "The Tyger"
Robert Bly: "Dusk in the Country" "Living at the End of Time"
Billy Collins: "Today"
E.E. Cummings: "I Carry Your Heart With Me"
Emily Dickinson: "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" "I Have a Bird in Spring" "To March" ("Dear March—Come in")
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "To Laugh Often and Much"
Joy Harjo: "Ah, Ah" "Eagle Poem" "Remember"
Langston Hughes: "In Time of Silver Rain" "The Power of a Circle"
Pablo Neruda: "Bird" "Songs of Togetherness"
Mary Oliver: "Heron Rises from the Dark, Summer Pond" "Poem 102: When Death Comes" "Poem of the One World" "The Ponds" "Wild Geese"
Jalal al-Din Rumi: "Come, Come Whoever You Are" "Don't Go Back to Sleep"
Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Afternoon on a Hill"
Walt Whitman: "Song at Sunset" "Song of the Open Road" "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
William Wordsworth: "My Heart Leaps Up" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" "Written in March"
William Butler Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Visual Awe Through Film:

Breathtaking Cinematography and Vast Vistas

Stunning Nature Videos and Documentaries

Awe Through Music Videos

A GUIDE TO WONDROUS THINGS