“The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.” WantLightEarthLevelsEffectsBalanceRainDestructionPaidCrisisClimateIncrediblesDebtPrimariesAtmospherePoisonGlobal WarmingChemicalsShiftingAcidFiltersUnthinkableGreenhousesNational DebtPipersOzoneThermalUltravioletAcid RainDebt Crisis Author:Michael Oppenheimer
“A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east... It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto the atmosphere itself... I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet.” IfsMomentsEarthFeltDarkSunSawsFeetShadowCastsEastAtmosphereIf I CouldSun Set Author:James Elkins
“I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and the stars and the void through which they travel. The essence of nature, eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, known as the great illusion time, and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background.” KnowsMenEarthHeavenKnownSunDivineWindEternalIllusionRainEssenceBackgroundsAtmosphereVoidLightningGalaxyThunderHeaven And EarthPrevailingThunder And Lightning Author:Eden Ahbez
“O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.” DreamRunningEarthSpiritHeavenBirthLeavingHillsAtmosphereStreamsTwilightMeltingEnchantmentSoftness Book:The Dream: And Other Poems Source: The Dream: And Other Poems
“Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.” LightEarthArtistBlackDarkColorPaintingBluePassingPassingsAtmosphereHorizonRaysRainbowOrangeVioletBlazingIndescribableDark BlueColors Of The RainbowLight Blue Author:Yuri Gagarin
“Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours, and you know what they represent. Having left the water planet, with all that water brings to Earth in terms of colour and abudance life, the absence of water and atmosphere on the desolate surface of the Moon gives rise to a stark contrast.” KnowsGivingEarthLeftTermWaterPlanetsMoonStandingSurfaceAbsenceLovelyAtmosphereColourContrastLooking BackStarksDesolate Author:Buzz Aldrin
“If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.” IfsThinkingKnowsEarthJoyOceanImportanceAtmosphereGlimpseMajestyBeamMicrobes Author:Sylvia Earle
“The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.” KindReasonLightEarthNightStarsSpaceSunBottomAtmosphereBe KindSwimmingPoolVersusTelescopesSwimming PoolHubbleHubble Space Telescope Author:Michael J. Massimino
“I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.” IfsKnowsEarthBitsCloudsAtmosphereOccasionalLooking DownHaze Author:Buzz Aldrin