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" To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold— brothers who know now they are truly... "
Space Program Benefits: Hearing...91-2 - Page 8
by United States. Congress. Senate. Aeronautical and Space Sciences - 1970 - 379 pages
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NASA EP.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Astronautics - 1970 - 144 pages
...stands in the vanguard of the new and rapidly accelerating global technologies. 409-792 O - 71 - I Dr. PAINE. Space has made the world seem smaller,...MacLeish "to see the earth as it truly is, small and Iblue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats." I am sure this has provided a new stimulus...
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The Shaping of Environmentalism in America

Victor B Scheffer - Nature - 2013 - 280 pages
...MacLeish as he contemplated photographs taken from out beyond the moon: To see the earth as we now see it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending...
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Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics

James N. Rosenau, Ernst-Otto Czempiel - Law - 1992 - 328 pages
...when he reflected on the pictures from the 1968 Apollo mission: "To see the earth as we now see it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending...
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...they are truly brothers" (p. ix). The article has slightly different wording and reads as follows: "To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and...beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal...
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Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

Garrett Hardin - Business & Economics - 1995 - 350 pages
...with such contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all. Adlai Stevenson, 1965. To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in the eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers...
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Speaking of the University: Two Decades at Vanderbilt

Alexander Heard - Electronic journals - 1995 - 404 pages
...lines written by Mr. MacLeish after man first orbited the moon: To see the earth as we now see it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending...
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Defining NASA's Mission and America's Vision for the Future of Space ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice - Science - 1998 - 284 pages
...first photograph of Earth from space, poet Archibald MacLeish wrote: To see the Earth as we now see it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending...
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The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle

T. A. Heppenheimer - Space shuttles - 1999 - 500 pages
...blessing on its goodness. In that moment, their view from the moon moved poet Archibald MacLeish to write: "To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and...beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal...
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"Before this Decade is Out--": Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program

Glen E. Swanson - Science - 1999 - 436 pages
...Writer Archibald MacLeish summed up the feelings of many people when he wrote at the time of Apollo that "To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and...beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal...
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Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

Denis Cosgrove - History - 2001 - 364 pages
...The lunar view of the earth allowed a true gauging of human proportion and relations with the planet: "To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence in which it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers in that bright loveliness...
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