Quotes About Vastness

The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you! You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life, Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time…   Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard! These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they…

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

The sky didn't wonder where it was.

To be mediocre is not to be small. . . . We are physically small compared to the galaxies, but our minds encompass the universe

The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.

The stars are the street lights of eternity.

the universe isn't big it fits inside each of us

And yet this great wink of eternity,Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings.

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

Inside you there are universes. You contain multitudes.

High-voltage wires stretched between steel towers like giants holding jump ropes into the distance.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

How are things on the edge of space?

I am the Chasm. I have depths to explore and fill. - Dalien Brock

We the people of Montana, grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of its mountains, the vastness of its rolling plains Ã¢â'¬Â¦

It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems.

Queremos aspirar a lo grande. El infinito es nuestro amigo. El infinito es seguro. El infinito nos ofrece un lugar donde escondernos.

He realized how little he knew, how unimaginably vast the universe was, and how its emptiness was only another word for mystery.

I'm sitting on the back deck, gazing up at the moonless night sky. The Milky Way is a hazy diagonal across the star-glittery blackness. In the immensely vast universe, we are a tiniest speck. In the billions of years of history, we are the merest infinitesimal instant. Yet we persist in believing that what we do can be important.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.