Consider again that dot. 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. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: wonder humanity inspiration kindness space vastness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. —H. G. Wells More about this quote Tags: mistakes space perspective catastrophes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The space between our mouth and the people’s ears, or eyes, who receive what we make, that is holy ground. —Fred Rogers More about this quote Tags: space compassion reverence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: space compromise cooperation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. —E. B. White More about this quote Tags: wonder discovery space Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: space earth instructions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for joy. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: truth space grief joy healing relief overcoming test room Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: space USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife were having lunch with astronaut Neil Armstrong after a photo session. Armstrong politely questioned the couple about the many different countries they had visited. "But, Mr. Armstrong," protested Mrs. Karsh, "you've walked on the moon. We want to hear about your travels." "But that's the only place I've ever been," replied Armstrong apologetically. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: space countries travel place photography Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A poor man was so distressed at how small and crowded his house was that he went to see his rabbi for advice. The rabbi told him to go home and move his goat into the house, then to come visit the rabbi again in a week. The man did as he was told and returned to the rabbi a week later. "How is it now?" asked the rabbi. "Impossible," said the man. The rabbi instructed the man to go home and move all his chickens into the house, then to return again in a week. A week later the man was banging on the rabbi's door. "How is it now?" asked the rabbi. "Impossible," the man replied. "I cannot go on like this." The rabbi told the man to go home, take the chickens and the goat out of the house, and return again in a week. Once more the man did as instructed. The next week the man stood at the rabbi's door with a broad grin and a well-rested manner. "So," the rabbi said, "now how is it?" "A blessing on you, Rabbi," the man said. "My life is so much better. I don't know how to thank you. —Hasidic folktale More about this quote Tags: advice space perception blessing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. —Joseph Franklin Rutherford More about this quote Tags: space home earth exploration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind. —Gayle Forman in Just One Day More about this quote Tags: feeling presence space absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. —Philip Johnson More about this quote Tags: space art architecture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: wonder space universe infinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. —Elon Musk More about this quote Tags: space risk adventure space travel Mars Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email