To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold--brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ~Archibald Mac Leish
... miraculous, photograph of the earth seen with the moon . . . “small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.” This was one of the great revolutionary moments of the human consciousness, but the moment was not explicit in the photograph... Only the imagination could recognize it—make imaginative sense of it. ~ Paris Match interview with A.M.
Our scientists tell us the stewardship of this planet and the way we conduct our relationships with one another are in need of improvement, if we expect to avoid calamity caused by war, global warming and overpopulation. Good Planets are hard to find.
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