Robert Louis Stevenson Quotation

The schooner turned upon her heel, the anchor plunged. It was a small sound, a great event; my soul went down these moorings whence no windlass may extract nor any diver fish it up; and I, and some part of my ship’s company, were from that hour the bond slaves of the isles …

Umberto Eco Quotation

But what if there is no Cosmic Plan?

What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there.
Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.

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Henry Wadsworth Longellow Quotation

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Reg Saner Quotation

We admire wild places because their forests and mountains
meet us as exactly what THEY meant to be;
blessedly forlorn, among many strange ways
in which the world keeps its promise.

Tennessee Williams Quotation

Make voyages.

Attempt them

… there is nothing else.

Arthur Eddington Quotation

Physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

The stuff of the world is mindstuff.

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"Galaxies on a String"

Astronomy Pic of the Day at:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080731.html