Quotes About Vastness

She hadn't meant to come so close in all that vastness.

So great is the sea and so tiny are we.

although we're heading in the same direction, we will never meet again. So great is the sea and so tiny are we.

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. We are spiritually and culturally paralyzed, unable to face the vastness, to embrace our lack of centrality and find out actual place in the fabric of nature.

Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.

More than anything there is the sense of scale: you can fly for hours and hours of Alaska and you look down and all you'll see is forests, lakes and snow-capped mountains, with no sign whatsoever of human beings.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

At last they saw what Strike had felt the need to see: a wide expanse of flat ocean, the color of chalcedony, beneath a periwinkle sky.

She was not a woman she was a world.

From galactic silence protect us.

Seen from this great height they were in themselves comparatively insignificant, but they at least suggested the vastness of the bastions of which they were no more than buttresses.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

The worst was when there was nothing in the sky, nothing to grab, blue blue blue.

By now night had fully occupied the sky, which was splattered with stars that seemed merely a few feet away. I can see why religions are born in the desert, Henry said. Yes, we have this problem, Majid said. God is always on top of us.

Then a slow mile later such places started thinning out, in favor of vacant lots and piney woods, and a sense of empty vastness ahead.

Perhaps her mind simply did not want to stop at one thought—just as a bird that soars with ease, which sees endless horizons, and to which all space, all the depth, all the joy of the soft and caressing azure are accessible.

now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good

The water was a full unknowable world.

A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.