When you're alone and looking up at the millions of brilliant stars lighting up the night time sky?
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How infinitely insignificant we are in our unimaginably brief(in comparison) time on Earth.
I think it is the most beautiful sight, inky black sky and twinkling stars, some coloured, some blinking, some bright white, the occasional shooting star leaving a dying trail, I can sit in the garden in the dark on a clear night and see wonders that were seen from the start of existance of life on this planet. Nothing in history can compete with that.
"The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet."
- Les Dawson