Like the eagle which rises higher and higher in the upper regions where the atmosphere itself loses its density, so we sail ourselves over-looking the mysterious horizons of the future.


Translated by John Ellard Gore, Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens, Book III, Chapter VI (p. 313)

Camille Flammarion Quotes

Like the eagle which rises higher and higher in the upper regions where the atmosphere itself loses its density, so we sail ourselves over-looking...

Like the eagle which rises higher and higher in the upper regions where the atmosphere itself loses its density, so we sail ourselves over-looking...

Like the eagle which rises higher and higher in the upper regions where the atmosphere itself loses its density, so we sail ourselves over-looking...

Like the eagle which rises higher and higher in the upper regions where the atmosphere itself loses its density, so we sail ourselves over-looking...