Quote by Byron J. Rees

“Men frequently say to me, I should think you would feel lonesome down there. I am tempted to reply to such- this whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. how far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of who disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves…”