Quotes About Vastness

I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.

The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

...And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

Throughout the span of time, the worlds of Man often believe themselves singular. Those who believe and accept they aren't alone in the vastness tend to consider themselves superior to those who share the vastness.

U—The Universe Is Expanding

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

You can love the ocean, and many do, but don't expect it to love you back. It's too forever

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

This is our world, lit with crescents and stars of light; and great petals half transparent block the openings like purple windows. Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as the domes of vast cathedrals. We are giants, lying here, who can make forests quiver.

Ainda assim não conseguiu dizer nada; o horizonte inteiro parecia despido de qualquer possível objeto de comentário.

We are giants, lying here, who can make forests quiver.

Words belong to each other, although, of course, only a great writer knows that the word incarnadine belongs to multitudinous seas.

In a word, before such an Amazing Offer, before such a vastness and variety of vistas, I was as helpless as Adam at the preview of early oriental history, miraged in his apple orchard.

The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts.

When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts. The world is wide and wild and grand. Someday I will sail my little bark into the great ocean of life, braving the winds and the tide. And while the waves may dwarf me, they will not belittle me, because I will be the master of my fate and the captain of my soul.