Eating the Sun Quotes

“Your luminosity is intrinsic, but your brightness will depend on who is looking at you.”
― Ella Frances Sanders, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

“You see, you are not so soft after all; you are rock and wave and the peeling barks of trees, you are ladybirds and the smell of a garden after the rain. When you put your best foot forward, you are taking the north side of a mountain with you.”
― Ella Frances Sanders, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

“Each year 40,000 tons of this starry dust falls to Earth; it contains the elements that will be used ceaselessly, throughout every living thing, around the entire planet.”
― Ella Frances Sanders, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

“While breathing has long been thought of as an automatic process, one driven by the part of the brain that controls life - inherent things like heartbeat and sleeping patterns - it can actually change your mind. Breathing at different speeds, even paying less or more attention to the breath, has been shown to engage different areas of the brain. And we are among the only animals who can actually alter and regulate our breating at will, consciously, rather than it simply happening in response to things such as running, resting, panic.”
― Ella Frances Sanders, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

“Everything is fascinating, so don't hold your breath.”
― Ella Frances Sanders, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

“In the Milky Way, which is about 110,000 light-years across, our sun is just one of between 100 and 400 billion stars, most hosting their own planets. Galaxies, like egos, come in varying sizes, and while ours is fairly spacious, there are others like the Andromeda galaxy (our neighbor) that are much, much larger.”
― Ella Frances Sanders, Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe