We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.
Edgar MitchellRead
It was a beautiful, harmonious, peaceful-looking planet, blue with white clouds, and one that gave you a deep sense of home, of being, of identity. It is what I prefer to call instant global consciousness.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the profound connection humanity has with Earth, evoking a sense of identity and belonging.
Edgar Mitchell reflects on the awe-inspiring view of Earth from space, highlighting how it fosters a feeling of global unity and consciousness among all inhabitants. He suggests that seeing our planet from afar instills a deep appreciation for its beauty and interconnectedness, prompting a sense of identity that transcends borders.
Themes
EarthConsciousnessIdentityUnityBeauty
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about environmental awareness, one might use this quote to express the beauty of our planet.
More from Edgar Mitchell
All quotes →We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.
Edgar MitchellRead
We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.
Edgar MitchellRead
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.
Edgar MitchellRead
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
Edgar MitchellRead
My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
Edgar MitchellRead
Similar quotes
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.
Glenn T. SeaborgRead
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas AquinasRead
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.
Henri PoincareRead
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
Salman RushdieRead
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
H. L. MenckenRead
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
Adelbert Von ChamissoRead