“Suddenly it comes, the flaming globe, blazing on the pinnacles and minarets and balanced rocks, on the canyon walls and through the windows in the sandstone fins. We greet each other, sun and I, across the black void of ninety-three million miles.” -Edward Abbey
“White gum trees […] line the dry creeks, and the vast stretches of desert have been bleached to an austere beauty under the searing sun. In the enduringness of this landscape, Aborigines see a model of the continuity they aim to attain in social life.” -Fred Myers
“Solar energy is the source of life’s exuberant development. The origin and essence of our wealth are given in the radiation of the sun, which dispenses energy – wealth – without any return. The sun gives without ever receiving.” -George Bataille
“When the heart inside the body ceases to function, we know very well that we will die, but we often forget that if the heart outside our body, the sun, ceases to function, we will also die immediately.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
“The sun was enticing, almost dragging, my thoughts away from their night of visceral sensations, away to the swelling of muscles encased in sunlit skin. And it was commanding me to construct a new and sturdy dwelling in which my mind, as it rose little by little to the surface, could live in security.” -Yukio Mishima
“I flew, quivering, an arrow, through sun-drunken delight, away into distant futures which no dream had yet seen, into hotter souths than artists ever dreamed of, where gods in their dances are ashamed of all clothes.” -Nietzsche
“To the Arabian bedouin, Hell is a sunlit sky and the sun a strong, bony female – mean, old and jealous of life – who shrivels the pastures and the skin of humans. The moon, by contrast, is a lithe and energetic young man, who guards the nomad while he sleeps, guides him on night journeys, brings rain and distils the dew on plants.” -Bruce Chatwin
“Under the vivid Egyptian sky, a far remove from the half-tones of my own country, the human condition was seen as a stark contrast of black and white. Neither the beginnings, nor the ends, nor the sustenance of life were concealed here under a discreet mask. The sun revealed everything.” -Ernle Bradford
“The first impulse that draws us away from the darkness of the cocoon toward the light of the Great Eastern Sun is a longing for ventilation. […] Then we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can.” -Chögyam Trungpa