The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.

Edward Abbey
The more we learn of outer space and inner space,...
The more we learn of outer space and inner space,...
The more we learn of outer space and inner space,...
The more we learn of outer space and inner space,...
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The more we learn about outer space and inner space, the more we realize that we are but tiny specks of nothingness in a great universe. We feel insignificant and less than whole as we look at the world around us and realize that we are just one part of it.

Source: Postcards From Ed: Dispatches And Salvos From An American Iconoclast

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