Pale blue dot

Earth between the rings of Saturn...

"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance,

the delusion that we may have some privileged position,

are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark ....

There is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

This distant image of our tiny world...

underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another,

and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've got."

--Carl Sagan

Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1-7, 331-4

 

"Suspended in a sunbeam"

"This point of pale light... a lonely speck... distant image of our tiny world

... deal more kindly with one another... preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've got"