Claims Quote by Lord Byron

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging.…

— Brian Cox

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

— Richard Jefferies

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books…

— Sebastian Faulks

I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on…

— Buzz Aldrin

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

— Giorgos Seferis

He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the…

— Zoroaster

“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going…

— Nathan Reese Maher

And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We…

— Isabel Allende

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote,…

— David Attenborough