Body Quote by Lewis Thomas

The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing…

— Sally Ride

There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and…

— Gus Grissom

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything…

— Chris Hadfield

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a…

— Edgar Mitchell

The Earth is a unique system in the universe, the only planet we know of that's hospitable for humankind.

— Sylvia Earle

Earth is a stunningly lovely planet for so many reasons. Among these is the wondrous presence of curious, artful, inventive humanity.

— David Grinspoon

Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of…

— Phil Plait

Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.

— Peggy Whitson

So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very good chance…

— Brian Greene

“Nearly everywhere I've been, popular wisdom has it that the location of humanity's original planet is unknown, mysterious. In fact it isn't, as anyone…

— Ann Leckie

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the…

— Sunita Williams

Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There are solar…

— John M. Grunsfeld