Light Travel Distance

Famous quotes containing the words light, travel and/or distance:

    “Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
    His hearth the earth,—his hall the azure dome;
    Where his clear spirit leads him, there’s his road,
    By God’s own light illumined and foreshadowed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ‘Tis all barren—and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “The distance that the dead have gone
    Does not at first appear—
    Their coming back seems possible
    For many an ardent year.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)