Ancestor Quote by Carl Sagan

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and…

— Carl Sagan

“At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by…

— Carl Sagan

I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then…

— Linda Ronstadt

We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I…

— Christopher Abbott

From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives…

— Sarah Dessen

“For all the tenure of humans on Earth, the night sky had been a companion and an inspiration. The stars were comforting. They seemed…

— Carl Sagan

Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at…

— Martin Rees

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket…

— Clyde Edgerton

We humans have always looked to the sky as a sounding board for asking big questions about ourselves: Who are we? Where did we…

— Trevor Paglen

I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of the sky,…

— Larry Wilmore

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship…

— George Eliot