“If you can see a thing whole,” he said, “it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives … But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is... See more

“To remember how little you matter, on a cosmic timescale, can feel like putting down a heavy burden that most of us didn’t realize we were carrying in the first place.”

​— Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

" Describing Earth as a tiny dot in a photo from space, Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan wrote: The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena...