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 8by United States. Congress. Senate. Aeronautical and Space Sciences - 1970 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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