perspective...
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
(Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
This cracked me up - mostly because it is so damn true.. And because I had just read what Carl Sagan had said about the idiocy of mankind's battles over tiny pieces of real estate on this insignificant little pebble that we inhabit..
He really put it into perspective, but it's kind lengthy for an insignificant posting by an indistinguished decendent of apes who still thinks it's pretty cool to take pictures of lizards soaking up the sun on a broad leaf...
perspective...
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
(Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
This cracked me up - mostly because it is so damn true.. And because I had just read what Carl Sagan had said about the idiocy of mankind's battles over tiny pieces of real estate on this insignificant little pebble that we inhabit..
He really put it into perspective, but it's kind lengthy for an insignificant posting by an indistinguished decendent of apes who still thinks it's pretty cool to take pictures of lizards soaking up the sun on a broad leaf...