“Our whole earth has become only another shore from which we look out across the dark ocean of space, uncertain what we shall find when we sail out among the stars, but like the Norsemen and the Polynesians of old, lured by the very challenge of the unknown.”
– Rachel Carson, “Of Man and the Stream of Time” (via thirdity)
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