Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.