What is less cluttered than the night sky, a star here, a planet there, a sliver of moon, and nothing else but all the space in the universe?
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Cold and clear last night, and I could not sleep for the wind moving the branch. I used to think the sky at night was the crowded one, all those stars packed in, and the day sky empty blue. Then I looked up properly for maybe an hour. What is less cluttered than the night sky, a star here, a planet there, a sliver of moon, and nothing else but all the space in the universe? Switch came up at some point, said he could not see what I was looking at, and went back down. He was right that there was almost nothing to see. That was the part I kept looking at.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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