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If you look at earth from space you see a dot that's here that's home that's us on it everyone you ever heard of every human being who ever lived out theri lives the aggregate of all our joys and sufferings thousands of condifent 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 hopeful child every mother and father every 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. 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot 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 its up to us it's been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience
To my mind there is no better 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 and compassionately
With one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot the only home we have ever known
- Pale blue dot
Carl sagan
- Pale blue dot
Carl sagan
