Moon
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has a diameter of 3,474 kilometres (2,159 miles) and a mean distance to the Earth of 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles). The Moon is also a major player in causing tidal effects on Earth.
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- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.
- Neil Armstrong, Apollo mission press conference
- The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.
- The silver light, which, hallowing tree and tower, Sheds beauty and deep softness o'er the whole, Breathes also to the heart, and o'er it throws A loving languor which is not repose.
- Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I
- There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.
- Gerry Driscoll, Pink Floyd, "Eclipse", The Dark Side of the Moon
- Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain.
- Go out of the house to see the moon, and 'tis mere tinsel: it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 1836
- Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
- When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
- The moon gazed on my midnight Eggan, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.
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- If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
