There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“then into a space where there seemed to be nothing but mist. When we came to a wall of yew twice as… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write.… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
“Yes, I’ll be glad.” And she said suddenly, “There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Brassa,' she whispered, 'what is the moon? Why does it grow in the sky?' 'Because the moon is the goddess Tor,' answered… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
“Are we like two stars in a constellation Seeming so close And making so much sense Yet in reality We are separated… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Tonight, most people will be welcomed home by jumping dogs and squealing kids. Their spouses will ask about their day, and tonight,… — Up In The Air Copy Share Image
“When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“we passed Costa Rica, and were near land. We had a most gorgeous sunset, and a full moon at night; besides, the… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring-and all of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was… — David Almond Copy Share Image
This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone… — Naoko Takeuchi Copy Share Image
If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Whether it's space tourism or really interesting missions to the moon or Mars, you really need a healthy capital ecosystem to make… — Dylan Taylor Copy Share Image
Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“The world was evaporating under the sun and I was floating. The town was evolving according to the laws of some sublime… — Marie Darrieussecq Copy Share Image
If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Lunars were a society that had evolved from an Earthen moon colony centuries ago, but they weren’t human anymore. People said Lunars… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Traveling at night toward the stars, I thought yet again how very far away they were, and how you could travel your… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I… — Chica Umino Copy Share Image
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
“Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image