Rising above the Local View

One of the happenings of the last fifty years has been man's space travel. When we first saw photographs of the earth from space, it was absolutely awesome - our first view of our beautiful blue planet. Now we receive images regularly from all over the universe...of the planets, stars and galaxies.

Yet, I have been reading recently some of the quotes from some of the early space explorers and what their experience caused in them. It was really inspiring to me and I felt offered some real encouragement to rise above the local view ....so thought I'd share some on the blog.

Here are a few of them

" The first day or so, we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day, we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one earth." Sultan Bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabia


"As I looked down.....I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. Two words leaped to mind....commonality and interdependence. We are one world. John-David Barton USA

" Having seen the sun, the stars, the planet, you become more full of life, softer. You begin to look at all living things with real trepidation and you begin to be more kind and patient with the people around you." Boris Volynov USSR

These are just three but there were hundreds of quotes , well worth researching 'space quotes' on google ...each one of them was so touching and moving.