How can wonder transform us?

Wonder, thus construed, helps us to see the world as valuable for its own sake, and thus helps us not only see it as a means to human ends. A person who sees the natural world as intrinsically valuable will not be tempted to use it as a mere means, and thus end up with very different attitudes and relationships to the environment.

wonder not only transforms how we see the world, it also transforms the person who wonders. As such, it is a transformative emotion. As philosophers such as Wittgenstein, or Asanga in the Yogācāra tradition already noted, if you shift your perspective on the world, you can transform yourself.