Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the …

Lewis Thomas
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Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dry as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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