Celestial Orientation
Celestial orientation, navigation using the stars, is commonly used for homing. Displaced marbled newts, for example, can only home when stars are visible.
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Famous quotes containing the words celestial and/or orientation:
“Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.”
—Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)