Makes me feel all humbled.

If only we could remember this all the time...we might not take ourselves so seriously and we might actually get along a whole lot better.

The actual pic is ok, but his insight inspired me to wish we could reach another planet (forget the moon). The words made me feel like I live in a dilapidated apartment on the wrong side of town, barely living, and if we could only just turn around (in the pic's perception) we could see the beauty and magnificence of what is on the other side, of the universe(or galaxy, whatever).
(forget mars, too; I want something big and fancy-looking... Jupiter-like, without all the gas)

On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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

In the words of David St Hubbins, "too much f***ing perspective".

And yet people have the gall to say there isn't other life out there other than on this horrily tiny speck of a planet. What arrogance we humans have..*snort*
Great clip by the way.

fucking WOW

great clip...thats real perspective for us all...

Carl Sagan.. The man was a poet.

I worte this poem expressing the wonder of the universe and a bit of my frustration at being "stuck"on this "dust mote of dust motes"

Falling Out (c) David Cale

Lying
Under the night sky
Looking up
Into star strewn blackness
I
Feel

My


Mind

Fall
Into the vastness
That created me

And but for the warp and weave
Of space and time
Plastering my body against
This dust mote of dust motes
This earth
My home

I would follow

www.imagesofthejourney.smugmug.com

And people laughed at Horton when he heard a "Who."

Yes, very humbling indeed.
Makes any problems we have look insignificant.

I miss Carl.