NPR and Sagan

Stumbled upon this NPR episode which included an interview with Carl Sagan about his then new book Pale Blue Dot.  These words still give me the chills.

But when we took the picture, there was something about it that seemed to me so poignant, vulnerable, tiny. And if we had photographed it from a much further distance, it would have been gone, lost against the backdrop of distant stars. And to me, it - I thought there - that's us. That's our world. That's all of us - everybody you know, everybody you love, everybody you ever heard of lived out their lives there, on a mote of dust in a sunbeam.

And it spoke to me about the need for us to care for one another, and also to preserve the pale blue dot, which is the only home we've ever known. And it underscored the tinyness, the comparative insignificance of our world and ourselves.

*image from here