A Commonplace Book

Category: sky...

  • Letting your feelings and thoughts pass through your consciousness like clouds passing through the sky.
  • Contemplating the vastness of the sky, accepting its awe and beauty - a perfect koan
  • 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)
  • Beyond the sky there is more sky; beyond one person there are others as well. (Chinese proverb)
  • The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. (R.W. Emerson)
  • When the sky is clear, carry an umbrella; though your stomach is full, carry provisions. (Chinese proverb)
  • sky (in 1220) first was defined as "a cloud" and then came to describe the upper region of air, the heavens, by 1300
  • We got the stars above and the city lights below. Up on the roof. (Carole King and Gerry Goffin)

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