Quotes About Vastness

Grandfather said that the ocean was large enough to contain every dream everyone had ever dreamed, but until now he had no comprehension of what that meant.

De entre todas las cosas que he visto en la vida, creo que el mar es mi favorita. A veces me descubro mirándolo y me olvido completamente de mis obligaciones. Es lo bastante grande como para contener en su interior todas las cosas que un hombre puede sentir a lo largo de toda una vida.

and inside this universe spin countless galaxies

Algumas vezes, eu me apanho encarando o mar e me esqueço de minhas tarefas. Parace grande o suficiente para conter qualquer coisa que as pessoas possam sentir.

I saw the earth far below as it really was, a little mud-heap in a great vastness, its kingdoms only cobwebs, its armies only crumbs.

from these Icarian heights, my feathers powdered with the dust of the stars, I saw the earth far below as it really was, a little mud-heap in a great vastness, its kingdoms only cobwebs, its armies only crumbs.

El mar es todo. Cubre siete décimas partes del globo… El mar no es más que un receptáculo para todas las criaturas prodigiosas y sobrenaturales

the way time here feels simultaneously immense and tiny.

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

THE EYES OF THE UNIVERSE' 630–1018

She had felt the movement of something vaster, impersonal yet personal, in her life. She thought that maybe people in contact with that nameless greatness had a way of catching at the edges, a way of being pulled along or even entering this thing beyond experience.

Era come se in quel momento stesse contemplando al di là della sterminata pianura e oltre i vulcani l'enorme tumultuoso azzurro oceano stesso, percependolo ancora dentro il cuore: l'impazienza illimitata, la brama incommensurabile.

The world looked to them like a great roll of butcher paper unfurled on a table.

I SLEPT LATE the next morning because I'd woken up every time Jack tossed or turned, worried I'd given him nightmares. When I got up, the Cobra had weighed anchor. As far as I could see, there was the flatness of the ocean

Que mundo? Tu não perdes os maus costumes de professor. O mundo, concluiu solenemente, é um espaço infinito e azul, com o sol por cima.

and it's a little planet, dears, out on the edge of a little galaxy. You can be proud that it's done so well.