Coast Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon…

— Robert Nathan

Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus -…

— Cees Nooteboom

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to…

— Primo Levi

“Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical…

— James Joyce

He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and…

— Arthur C. Clarke

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began…

— Vaclav Havel

Columbus gave the world another world.

— George Santayana

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold…

— Cormac McCarthy

“My world took his form, became his body, his mouth, his hands, skimming over me, surveying the hills and valleys of all that was…

— Darynda Jones

Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched…

— Cormac McCarthy

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because…

— Ellsworth Huntington