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Earthrise' photo history -- the first 'whole earth' photo

http://www.ibhanet.org/resources/documents/newsletters/spierearthrisephoto.pdf

http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm

The beginnings of the modern environmental movement...

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/science/space/14mission.html

... the sight moved the poet Archibald MacLeish to write on Christmas Day that momentous perspective-changing year:

“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...”

After the mission, NASA released the color pictures the astronauts had taken of “Earthrise.”

Time magazine closed out the year with the Earthrise photograph on its cover, with a one-word caption, “Dawn.”

● http://100photos.time.com/photos/nasa-earthrise-apollo-8

In a 2008 book, “Earthrise” Robert Poole writes of a "spiritual nascence" of the environmental movement... “it is possible to see that Earthrise marked the tipping point, the moment when the sense of the space age flipped from what it meant for space to what it means for Earth.”

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Galen Rowell has described this image as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".