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Te-Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa....Tavi-the-Jester's phantom lands still rise
And fade to empty sea before men's eyes.
Lest we grow sick at heart from hope deferred
May we, too, hear the call that Maui heard.
James Norman Hall (from The Far Lands)
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. ...The ocean calls.
Carl Sagan
The thing's hollow -- it goes on forever -- and -- oh my God! -- it's full of stars!.
David Bowman (Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Saint Augustine (The City of God, 16.9)
Sir Charles Lyell