“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.” LifeEarthLinesAlivePerspectiveLuckyNormalSpringPercentDiedWinnerDawnMisfortunesCosmicAncestorOrganismsLiving ThingsOffspringUnbroken Author:Daniel Dennett
“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.” IfsMenShouldYearsFirstsHumansLongDifferentProblemRealityEarthUniverseViewsPlansMinutesPerspectiveDestructionGreedPoint Of ViewVanityInclinationTelescopesBiasedDifferent PerspectiveVistasHuman Problems Author:Rachel Carson
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” FeelsEyeEarthFeltSpacePlanetsPerspectiveBlueTinyGiantsThumbsAstronautSpace ExplorationPlanet EarthPeasBeautiful EarthEarth And SkySave The PlanetBlue PlanetOur Planet EarthGood Earth Author:Neil Armstrong
“Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.” ThinkingWorldWayMindLittlesEarthOrderDarkPerspectiveHigherPassagesDiggingMoles Book:Spring Came on Forever Source: Spring Came on Forever
“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.” GivingWritingMatterUseSeemsAgeEarthFoundLanguageUnderstandingSunFireRevolutionPerspectiveBirthCirclesDramaticWheelsFlatsHumankindHistoricNew Perspective Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s