our little blue home
with puff cotton clouds
and seas deep and mysterious
with crimson evening skies
and luminaries speckling the night
with creatures, huge and minute
and valleys vast and rushing rivers
with trees and mountains high
and wild flowers and tall grasses
with refreshing morning dew
and the sun’s comforting warmth
with blossoms in the spring
and falling crystals in the winter
with the cricket’s lullaby
and the morning tune of birds
with people of all kinds and sorts
who are blessed the gift to be
on their lovely, little blue home
where many wonders can be seen
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“…The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident 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 mother and father, hopeful child, 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….Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark…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.”
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Happy Earth Day!