From this
distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But
for us, it's different. 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 being who ever was, lived out their lives. 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.
- Carl Sagan
[Pale Blue Dot: a Vision of the Human Future in Space].
