“I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.” WorldYearsLongEarthOrderAirSkyAverageDesertNovelistsDryFiftyValleysConstructionLong AgoPeersVentureOther WorldsPilgrimTelescopesAstronomersChilePristineRainfall Author:Brad Leithauser
“Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.” PeopleEarthAnimalFoodCreaturesEatingGreenCookingSuperiorsMiserableErasCulinaryValleysSensibleCheeseMagnificentBizarreGoatsDairy Author:Russell Baker
“Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live nearer to Christ than to any person on this earth; so that when they are taken, you may have Him to love and lean upon.” WorldHeartMayPersonsEarthDiesChristTakenThis WorldFlowerRosePrizeValleysFadesLiliesSharon Author:Robert M