Once Upon

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Gravitational Waves

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Tell, Don't Show

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Laughing Stars

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“People have stars that are not the same. For some, who travel, stars are guides. For others, they are nothing but small lights. For others, who are scientists, they are problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent. You will have stars like nobody has…”

“What do you mean?”

“At night, when you look at the sky, as I will be living on one of them, as I will laughing on one of them, then it will be for you as if all stars were laughing. You will have stars that can laugh!”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Look Carefully

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“It is, for me, the most beautiful and saddest landscape in the world. That’s the same landscape as the one of the previous page, but I drew it once again to show you it well. It is here where the little prince appeared on Earth, and then disappeared.

Look carefully at this landscape to be sure you recognize it, if you travel one day to Africa, in the desert. And, if you manage to go through it, I beg you, don’t rush, wait a bit just underneath the star! If, then, a child comes to you, if he laughs, if he has golden hair, if he does not answer to your questions, you will guess who he is. So be nice! Do not make me so sad: write to me quick telling he came back…”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Asteroid B-612

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“If I had told you those details on Asteroid B-612 and gave you its number, it’s because of grown-ups. Grown-ups like digits.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Farewell for Now

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Cavernous Space

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Waiting for the Prince

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Edge of the World

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Liquid Grit

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Apocalyptic

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Motion and Change

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"The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one's feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Even the mountains were mere ant-hills under it. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!"

—Willa Cather

Starry, Starry Night

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“Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will”

—Don McLean

This Then

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"This then is life,
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
How curious! how real!
Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun."

—Walt Whitman

Memories of Eld

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“Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!
Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!
I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.”

—Edgar Allan Poe

Fleeting Foam

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"Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own.”

—Hermann Hesse

Unbelievable Dignity

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"The moon came out clear — I stood watching the barns — trees — ground — hills — the sky-an unbelievable dignity.”

—Alfred Stieglitz

Celestial Traveler

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Light Streaker

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Moonstone

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Between Sand and Stars

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"Here I possessed nothing in the world. I was no more than a mortal strayed between sand and stars, conscious of the single blessing of breathing. And yet I discovered myself filled with dreams."

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let It Storm

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“There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and your pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing, don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen, you are not a Greek, you are not harmonious, or the master of yourself, you are a bird in the storm. Let it storm!”

—Hermann Hesse

Flatland

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“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows only hard and with luminous edges and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe": but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.”

—Edwin A. Abbot