CelticBear’s Musings

Came across this passage today, and I thought I’d pass it on.
Carl Sagan from the program “Who Speaks for Earth”:

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of this small planet Earth. But up there in the cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatic ethnic or religious or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent, fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. There are not yet obvious signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence and this makes us wonder whether civilizations like ours rush inevitably headlong into self-destruction. I dream about it. And sometimes they’re bad dreams.

Carl Sagan is my rabbi.