August Quote by Rachel Carson

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a…

— Jacques Barzun

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long…

— Terry Pratchett

“It was one of those warm, still, almost tropical nights, so rarely seen on the northern waters, when a profound calm reigns in the…

— George Kennan

For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark…

— Ulf Merbold

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in…

— George Grey

Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The wind was off shore, and only broke the sea's surface in to long, silvery ripples, and sent sheeny shadows flying out across it,…

— L.M. Montgomery

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really…

— Tomas Transtromer

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend…

— Edith Wharton

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of…

— Charles Dickens

“Apart from the jet-black sky, the photo might have been taken almost anywhere in the polar regions of Earth; there was nothing in the…

— Arthur C. Clarke