Thread by @manishariprasad

Pale Blue Dot or Blue Marble
In words of Carl Sagan-
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human who ever was, lived out their lives...1/7
#IndiAves #EarthDay #EarthIsBeautiful

The aggregate of our joy & suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, & economic doctrines, every hunter & forager, every hero & coward, every creator & destroyer of civilization, every king & peasant, every couple in love, every mother & father, hopeful child.. 2/7

... 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 suspended in a sunbeam... 3/7

The 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... 4/7

Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds... 5/7

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand... 6/7

There is 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 with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known..." 7/7