The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.
Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
