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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist known for his Gothic novels and romantic works. His writings often delve into themes of morality and sin, influenced by his family history and Puritan background. more

“The way we envision the stars is by imagining they're attached to a giant invisible sphere surrounding the earth. It is a total fiction, really - just a construction we came up with to help us get our heads around the complexity of it all ... The ecliptic, put simply is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. But since we all live here on earth, we observe the sun to be moving along this plane instead. Why? Because what would be the point of looking at things from the perspective of the sun? That's no use to anyone ... Ergo, it's an imaginary circle, as it's only a part of our human construction of the cosmos.”

Sun Imaginary Ecliptic

Book:The Ecliptic

Source: The Ecliptic

“We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit.”

Nature Sun

Book:The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.”

Sun Toddler

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“As the sun shines I will make hay To keep failure at bay For there remaineth a pay For my honest toil each day.”

Inspirational Pay Sun Honest Failure Labor Labour Sunshine Toil Day Shine Reward Hay Ogwo David Emenike Bay Honest Toil

Author:Ogwo David Emenike

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