Our sun is one of100 billion stars in our galaxy.Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe.It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.

-Braun,Wernher von
  In the NewYork Times, 29  Apr.

Thus did they live:Thus did they love, Repeating only joys above; And Angels were, but with clothes on, Which they would put off cheerfully, To bathe them in the galaxy, Then gird them with the Heavenly zone.

-Lovelace, Richard
  Lucasta,'Love Made in the First  Age'.

For some time I watch the coming of the night† Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

-Matthiessen, Peter
  Of the night sky in Nepal. The Snow Leopard,'Northward, October18'.