The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage |
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Aldebaran astronomers atoms beauty beginning Betelgeuse Big Bang billion birds black hole blue bright bubble burn Burroughs carbon clouds color Comet West constellation Creation dark dawn Dipper disk distant dream dust Earth eclipse energy faint lights flame flash galactic giant giant star gravity Halley's Comet Hha Hha horizon hundred hydrogen imagination infinite Kohoutek lady-slipper light-years look luminous lunar mass matter miles Milky Way Galaxy monster moon moon's mourning cloak naked eye nebula night sky object observatory orbit Orion pale particles perhaps photographs physicists pinwheel planets Pleiades plover protons quasars radiation radio red giant Ring rise Roethke Sagittarius says seen shadow silence space sphere spiral star's stars stuff surface T'ao Ch'ien tail telescope Theodore Roethke things Thoreau tiny tions trees trillion turned universe Walden Pond Wallace Stevens watched whirlpool Whirlpool Galaxy wind yellow
References to this book
The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age Howard Mansfield Limited preview - 2001 |