Covered Quote by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective, seeing it…

— Edgar Mitchell

Earth is crammed with heavens.

— Robert Browning

If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere,…

— Eduard Suess

Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and…

— Lewis Thomas

Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the…

— Sally Ride

Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.

— Yoko Ono

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

— Jean Picard

The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our…

— Michael J. Massimino

It takes a planet to explore the universe.

— Dylan Taylor

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

— Sally Ride

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up…

— Henry David Thoreau