Planet

View the "Pale Blue Dot" from Saturn (Cassini) 900 million miles away

(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Earthrise Seen from the Moon

(Image credit: NASA/Apollo 8 crew)

from Pale Blue Dot

Consider again 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, 1994

回望下这个小点，那就是这里，那就是家园，那就是我们。你所爱的每个人，认识的每个人，听说过的每个人，历史上的每个人，都在它上面活过了一生。我们物种历史上的所有欢乐和痛苦，千万种言之凿凿的宗教、意识形态和经济思想，所有狩猎者和采集者，所有英雄和懦夫，所有文明的创造者和毁灭者，所有的皇帝和农夫，所有热恋中的年轻人，所有的父母、满怀希望的孩子、发明者和探索者，所有道德导师，所有腐败的政客，所有 ‘超级明星’，所有 ‘最高领袖’，所有圣徒和罪人——都发生在这颗悬浮在太阳光中的尘埃上。

—卡尔 · 萨根, 1994