“These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.”
“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?”
“Our commitment to next generations is to bring heaven on earth, and not nuclear annihilation. There is still hope, we must act before time slips.”
“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.”
“When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there s only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.”
“In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds.”
“The mother-earth may not like the way we preserve her...if any.”
“Unless you understand the pain and sufferings of the people, trees, birds and the nature, how can you understand God.”
“If Earth had a soccer team, everyone on Earth would wear the same jersey to support it. There’d be no them, there’d only be us.”
“SONG OF SUNSET ON THE RIVER A strip of water s spread in the setting sun, Half the river s emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like pearl; the moon like a bow.”
“I have a dream, humans were part of aliens on earth. I also dream, that some humans are really indigenous.”
“Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.”
“Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It s time to hit the road again.”
“There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.”
“Of all the Earthly pleasures, also Earn Respect; trust me it counts!”
“Aber das verzaubernde Licht sammelte sich auf der gewölbten Fläche des riesigen Globus, der auf einem schwarzen Sockel frei vor der Mitte der Bücherreihen stand. Seine Gebirge waren mit braunen Erhebungen angedeutet, seine Ebenen wie Wiesen getönt, von einem Netzwerk von Strömen durchflochten, und seine blauen Meere schimmerte nun purpurn im Abendlicht.”
“Powerful winds that crack the boughs of November! - and the bright calm sun, untouched by the furies of the earth, abandoning the earth to darkness, and wild forlornness, and night, as men shiver in their coats and hurry home. And then the lights of home glowing in those desolate deeps. There are the stars, though! - high and sparkling in a spiritual firmament. We will walk in the windsweeps, gloating in the envelopment of ourselves, seeking the sudden grinning intelligence of humanity below these abysmal beauties. Now the roaring midnight fury and the creaking of our hinges and windows, now the winder, now the understanding of the earth and our being on it: this drama of enigmas and double-depths and sorrows and grave joys, these human things in the elemental vastness of the windblown world.”