All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World - Ad Astra
Tuomas Holopainen
"Look again at that dot that's here
That's home that's us on
It everyone you love, everyone you know
everyone you ever heard of, every human
Being who ever was
Lived out their lives the aggregate of our
Joy and suffering, thousands of confident
Religions, ideologies, and
Economic doctrines
Every hunter and forager, every
Hero and coward, every creator and destroyer
Of civilization, every king and peasant
Every young couple in love
Every mother and father, hopeful
Child, inventor and explorer
Every teacher of
Morals, every corrupt politician
Every "superstar, " every "supreme leader
" every saint and sinner in
The history of our species
Lived there-on a mote of dust
Suspended in a sunbeam
That's here that's home that's us"
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994