Quotes About Vastness

The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and you—beside—

People here had redwood trees in their backyards. You were never far from the infinite.

No me detendré jamás, mientras me quede vida —se decía, contemplando aquella vasta tierra despoblada y espantosamente solitaria—, hasta que ni un palmo de tierra quede oculta a mis ojos y hollada por mi pie.

It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

The eternal silence of infinite spaces reassures me.

Yeruham's small. You walk five minutes, and you're in the desert.

How many ways have you thought of already?" "Who can count the number of stars in the sky or grains of sand upon the beach? It's futile.

People came to the desert because the stars were in the desert, and the stars had yet to be corrupted by man... The stars, it seemed, would crush man in a scenic, gravitational panorama before man would ever corrupt the stars.

Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations.

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife.

the seven of them rode for two hours into country that seemed to contain nothing except itself.

In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through.

That's the only part that bugs me about this. It's so empty out there." "True. On the other hand, if the Sun blows up we'll be in an unrivaled position to say, 'What was that?'" "Oh

There was only the enormous, empty prairie, with grasses blowing in waves of light and shadow across it, and the great blue sky above it, and birds flying up from it and singing with joy because the sun was rising. And on the whole enormous prairie there was no sign that any other human being had ever been there.

The vast prairie was dark and still. Only the wind moved stealthily through the grass, and the large, low stars hung glittering from the great sky.

She liked the enormous sky and the winds, and the land that you couldn't see to the end of. Everything was so free and big and splendid.

Be? milyar y?la sonsuz diyebilir misiniz? Sanm?yorum. ama bu kadar? bile geri kalan?m?z? k?skand?rmaya yeter. sf.10

The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.