When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
