{"quotes":[{"text":"Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.","author":"Zhuangzi","tags":["govern","simplicity","taoism","vastness"],"id":3402,"author_id":"Zhuangzi"},{"text":"What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.","author":"Agnostic Zetetic","tags":["complement","contradiction","honesty","humanity","infinite","outside-the-box","reality","vastness"],"id":43612,"author_id":"Agnostic+Zetetic"},{"text":"It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.","author":"Anatole France","tags":["anthropocenterism","cosmology","life","philosophy","thought","vastness"],"id":68352,"author_id":"Anatole+France"},{"text":"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos].","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["dedication","immensity","joy","love","marriage","science","space","time","true-love","vastness","wife"],"id":72212,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"Science . . . Has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["darkness","fear","freedom","ignorance","light","salvation","science","superstition","truth","universe","vastness"],"id":77463,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"The sky can never be frozen because its vastness has chosenall warmth of our lives as we look abovewith unbreakable hearts armoured in love.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["armour","armoured","chosen","frozen","heart","hearts","lives","love","love","poem","poetry","sky","unbreakable","vastness","warm","warmth"],"id":109577,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand.”Mary Lasswell.","author":"Mary Lasswell","tags":["beauty-in-nature","diversity","god","inspirational","one-of-a-kind","spiritual","texas","unique","vastness"],"id":121941,"author_id":"Mary+Lasswell"},{"text":"I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.","author":"Hark Herald Sarmiento","tags":["capture","confinement","explorer","immensity","limited-atonement","parchment","photographs","vastness","world","writing"],"id":135811,"author_id":"Hark+Herald+Sarmiento"},{"text":"Look tonight at the stars. Let them overwhelm you in the postures of their bright dance. Face the vastness which they dot like silver bees, and sound with your own brain the mystery, hazarding at the inscrutable plan of things.","author":"Robert H. Barlow","tags":["bees","dance","mystery","plan","stars","universe","vastness"],"id":152509,"author_id":"Robert+H.+Barlow"},{"text":"He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["country","merry","mountains","vastness"],"id":159787,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}