Quotes About Vastness

New York was an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, no matter how well he came to know its neighborhoods and streets, it always left him with the feeling of being lost.

New York was an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, no matter how well he came to know its neighbourhoods and streets, it always left him with the feeling of being lost. Lost,

Stars, on the other hand, were inexplicable. Not holes in the sky, not candles, not electric lights, not anything that resembled what you knew. The immensity of the black air overhead, the vastness of the space that stood between you and those small luminosities, was something that resisted all understanding. Benign and beautiful presences hovering in the night, there because they were there and for no other reason. The work of God's hands, yes, but what in the world had he been thinking?

That's where we are," he said. "One star amongst four hundred billion.

The sea, the ever renewing sea!

baobab. Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened

If I were any kind of water," Eden said, staring out and out, "I'd want to be this ocean." You already are, I wanted to tell her. You're everything I can see.

The waves reach up and the fathomless sky pushes down.

It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are

In all its manifestations, religion constitutes an immense projection of human meanings into the empty vastness of the universe-a projection, to be sure, which comes back as an alien reality to haunt its producers.' - p.100, 'The Sacred Canopy

apart from the grey smudge of a tanker or freighter on the horizon, the sea was empty.

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.