Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307801937