Every woman is like a time zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road.... Hunched and nocturnal, Where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable move...ment. The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars past earthly objects, which is perceptible in a few minutes of stillness, or by the better outlook upon space that a hill affords, or by the wind, or by the solitude; but whatever be its origin the impression of riding along is vivid and abiding. The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars. After such a nocturnal reconnoitre it is hard to get back to earth, and to believe that the consciousness of such majestic speeding is derived from a tiny human frame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So pass my Days. But when Nocturnal Shades This World invelop, and th' inclement Air... Persuades Men to repel benumming Frosts, With pleasant Wines, and crackling blaze of Wood; Me Lonely sitting, nor the glimmering Light Of Make-weight Candle, nor the joyous Talk Of loving Friend delights; distress'd, forlorn, Amidst the horrors of the tedious Night, Darkling I sigh, and feed with dismal Thoughts My anxious Mind; or sometimes mournful Verse Indite, and sing of Groves and Myrtle Shades, Or desperate Lady near a purling Stream, Or Lover pendent on a Willow-Tree:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and en...forcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust,... The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The distinction between the truth of faith and the truth of science leads to a warning, directed to theologians, not to use recent... scientific discoveries to confirm the truth of faith. Microphysics have undercut some scientific hypotheses concerning the calculability of the universe. The theory of quantum and the principle of indeterminacy have had this effect. Immediately religious writers use these insights for the confirmation of their own ideas of human freedom, divine creativity, and miracles. But there is no justification for such a procedure at all, neither from the point of view of physics nor from the point of view of religion. The physical theories referred to have no direct relation to the infinitely complex phenomenon of human freedom, and the emission of power in quantums has direct relation to the meaning of miracles.... The truth of faith cannot be confirmed by latest physical or biological or psychological discoveries--as it cannot be denied by them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »