10 Brilliant Quotes About the Sun
Our sun is a giant ball of hydrogen and helium measuring 864,000 miles across and, at its core,reaching temperatures of 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. Those numbers are so staggering as to be incomprehensible. Standing here on Earth, looking up at the star that casts us in its warm light every day, we rarely think about how it and the rest of our solar system formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust about 4.5 billion years ago.
That doesn’t mean we fail to appreciate it, though. The sun warms our shoulders and draws seedlings up from the soil. It is the very source of life on our planet. It inspires us with its unfaltering reliability, rising every morning to start a new day — and who could claim indifference to the stunning display of a sunset, when the light reaches up through the clouds in a shifting array of colors?
Yes, to those of us here on Earth, the sun is much more than a star, and as the daylight hours grow longer, we look forward to warm, languid days. In honor of the glowing center of our universe, we’ve collected 10 quotes about how the sun inspires us with its quotidian brilliance.
