“From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.” EarthBlackFourSkyMoonDistanceSizeBrilliantJewelsVelvetFull Moon Author:Buzz Aldrin
“some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.” KnowsLightWould BeEarthBeautifulStarsBlackWhiteKnow HowHellSkyHundredMy FriendsBlueDistanceSouthWinterWaveIceJournalistMy TimeWheelsShadeLaughedNot AfraidEcstaticHell On EarthOrdealsDomesAntarcticaBlue And WhiteShades Of Blue Author:Jerri Nielsen
“Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.” MatterCertainFallBlackMountainDistanceForestsHeightRisingSensationsSummitGeometryLoftyAnalogiesBreadthCanyonsExpanseGiddyThickness Author:Bob Marshall