8 quotes found
“At least when it comes to light pollution what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.”
“Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask of a cedar waxwing on a bare branch a few feet away; the clear bright sun of a frozen...”
“I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of the Sahara Desertone night, in a youth hostel that was more like a stable, I woke and walked out ...”
“With my naked eye, on nights the moon climbs slowly, sometimes so dusted with rust and rose, brown, and gold tones that it nearly drips earth colors and seems intimately braided with Earth, it feel...”
“In these countless stars, in their clusters and colors and constellations, in the shooting showers of blazing dust and ice, we have always found beauty. And in this beauty, the overwhelming size of...”
“When I lie back and close my eyes, this farthest lip of beach right next to the end of the ocean feels like being up close to an enormous breathing being, the bass drum surf thump reverberating thr...”
“My feeling is that an observer needs to see four hundred and fifty stars to get that feeling of infinitude, and be swept awayand I didnt make that number up arbitrarily, thats the number of stars t...”
“These are maybe the most exciting stars, those just above where sky meets land and ocean, because we so seldom see them, blocked as they usually are by atmosphereand, as I grow more and more accust...”
