Monuments are bigger than men. The unfinished tomb of Yasawi in Turkestan, a town in Kazakhstan, dwarfs spectators. It was the first monument planned by Timur, whose architects later went on to build the monuments in Samarkand.
Mountains are bigger than monuments. At sunrise Kanchanjunga floats serenely above the town of Darjeeling. The town does not contain stupendous structures, but is far larger than a Timurid monument.
Continents are larger than mountains. A view of Greenland from eleven kilometers above the earth does not yet encompass a full continent, but it does show a large part of a mountain range. Enormous icebergs are merely dots of white in this photo.
Planets are bigger than geology. Entire continent-sized lowlands are just dark blotches in this photo of half the moon.
The solar system dwarfs planets. I captured a conjunction of the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter in a hand held camera. If you look carefully you’ll notice that the Image of Saturn looks a little elongated. That’s the rings seen obliquely.
This is the limit of what a hand held camera can capture. And the universe is larger still.
Don't hold your breath 
