Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator “As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars!” Stars Space Clouds ♥ 3
Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator “But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.” Years Clouds Dust ♥ 3
Isabel Allende Novelist “That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.” Lying Clouds Floating ♥ 3
Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author “You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.” Rain Clouds Cry ♥ 3
Haruki Murakami Writer “You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?” Thinking Real Clouds ♥ 3
Haruki Murakami Writer “The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.” Running Sky Clouds ♥ 3
Haruki Murakami Writer “I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.” Clouds Airports Seven ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.” Dark Rivers Clouds ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.” Lying Imagination Clouds ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.” Life Imagination Clouds ♥ 3
Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author “While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.” One Day Clouds Sun ♥ 3
George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter “She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.” Nature Rain Clouds ♥ 3
