"What you are doing, is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now." --Alan Watt.
The Earth from 4 billion miles away. This picture was taken by Voyager 1 in 1991 as it approached the outer limits of our solar system.
“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
- Carl Sagan, from a lecture delivered at Cornell University: 10/13/94
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