…And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Miracles”

Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness. – Author Unknown

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery