Beauty Quote by Herman Melville

“To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement…

— Frank Herbert

“The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny…

— Karen Foxlee

“Lying spread-eagled in the silky water, gazing into the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly to keep afloat, I was looking at…

— Gerald Durrell

“I leaned back on my palms, looking at the Milky Way spilling in modest grandeur across the sky. A fountain of stars frothing over,…

— Leah Raeder

“nebulous and milky, like light from an old, old star.”

— Gail Honeyman

“And the Milky Way belted heaven with ice and silver, and the Magellanic Clouds were not vague shimmers but roiling and glowing; and the…

— Poul Anderson

“In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected…

— Joseph Conrad

“That night, though, far out into the North Atlantic, there were no lights to be seen, for there was no shipping. The deep-water lanes…

— Robert McFarlane

“Maybe there's a galaxy with a planet that's just a little more tilted, with a sun that shines just a little bit darker, and…

— Amy Reed

“The life of a star is surrounded by the qualities of a Galaxy;I am that Galaxy.”

— Slicktor Victor Robinson

“These are maybe the most exciting stars, those just above where sky meets land and ocean, because we so seldom see them, blocked as…

— Paul Bogard

“...when we broke the surface again the first thing I saw was the great bold stripe of the Milky Way painted across the heavens,…

— Ransom Riggs