VLADIMIR SHATALOV USSR
When we look into the sky, it seems to us to be endless. We
breathe without thinking about it, as is natural. We think without
consideration about the boundless ocean of air, and then you
sit aboard a spacecraft, you tear away from Earth, and within
ten minutes you have been carried straight through the layer
of air, and beyond there is nothing. Beyond the air there is
only emptiness, coldness, darkness. The boundless blue sky, the
ocean which give us breath and protects us from the endless black
and death, is but an infinitesimally thin film. How dangerous
it is to threaten even the smallest part of this gossammer covering
this conserver of life.
SIGMUND JAHN GDR
Before I flew I was already aware of how small and vulnerable
our planet was; but only when I saw it from space, in all its
ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realise that humankinds
most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations
EDGAR MITCHELL USA
The peaks were the recognition that it is a harmonious, purposeful,
creating universe. The valleys came in recognizing that humanity
wasn't behaving in acoordance with that knowledge.
JOHN-DAVID BARTOE. USA
As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along
for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping.
I also saw huge forests, extending across several borders. And
I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate
continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all
of this commonality and interdependence. We are one world.
URI GLAZKOV USSR Nature has been limitlessly kind to us, having helped humankind
appear, stand up, and grow stronger. She has generously given
us everything she has amassed over the billions of years of inanimate
development. We have grown strong and powerful, yet how have
we answered this goodness ? |
