sunlight as the gaze of God

'Since all the colors that we see'on Earth and everywhere else'are a matter of which wavelengths of sunlight are best reflected, there is still more than poetic merit to think of the Sun as caressing all within its reach, of sunlight as the gaze of God.'

'Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, 1997.