It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.
Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.