Motherhood Quote by Alex Trebek

A line like this lands with the particular authority of someone who spent a lifetime rewarding curiosity on national television. Trebek isn’t preaching environmental policy; he’s delivering a moral pop quiz. “If you can’t” frames awe not as a personality trait but as a basic human capacity, and the blunt kicker - “there’s something wrong with you” - is the Trebekian move: crisp, slightly severe, a raised eyebrow in sentence form.

The intent is less about shaming than about re-sensitizing. In a culture trained to treat the natural world as backdrop, content, or commodity, Trebek insists on awe as a diagnostic: if nature doesn’t break through your defenses, you’ve become numb in a way that should worry you. “Mother Nature” also matters. It’s deliberately familiar, almost corny, which makes the statement accessible while smuggling in a sense of kinship and obligation. You don’t have to be a scientist to feel implicated; you just have to be awake.

The subtext is a quiet critique of modern insulation - screens, climate-controlled rooms, endless distraction - that makes the extraordinary feel routine. Coming from an entertainer, the line sidesteps partisan trench warfare and aims for something older and broader: reverence. Trebek’s cultural role was to model respect for knowledge without turning it into elitism; here he does the same with wonder, suggesting that awe isn’t escapism. It’s evidence that your inner life hasn’t been flattened by convenience.