Quotes About Celestial

I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

Stonehenge is famously aligned with midsummer sunrise, and possibly also intentionally with midwinter sunset.

Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

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Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

And the moon be still as bright.

A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.

They were astronomers plotting the trajectories of stars.

It is the celestial ennui of apartmentsThat sends us back to the first idea.

The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon The golden apples of the sun

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. —Lawrence M. Krauss, physicist

If there's a red dwarf in Canis Major, and it isn't named Clifford, I'm going to say a swear word.

find it revealing that people are not coming back from these celestial life reviews with cures for cancer or solutions to our planet's overpopulation. Rather, they are coming back with a message of love, caring, and concern for their fellow man.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel

Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue-black sky.

Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.

1270We are all composed of stardust or, if you're feeling a tad more cynical, solar excrement.

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

By far, the oldest of the claptrap philosophies of mankind is astrology.