Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of int... JOHN RUSKIN Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 t... BARBARA BOXER When we're on the space station, we orbit the Earth 16 times per day, which means we're cons... THOMAS MARSHBURN We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80, JOHN CROSS And these Things, which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient, they lo... RAINER MARIA RILKE My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.'... SARAH KOENIG Life consists on lightness and darkness, when you reached to lightness, prepare your tools for darkn... KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. Af... PAT CADIGAN Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting s... KIP THORNE I stood in the blue darkness and looked in awe at the Earth from the lunar surface. What I saw was a... EUGENE CERNAN It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. RAINER MARIA RILKE Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth ... PETE MCCLOSKEY Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out. KAMAND KOJOURI Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, ... STEVE MARABOLI Our institute is named for Gaylord Nelson, and he is often called the founder of Earth Day. After Se... HOPE SIMON When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world. JEANETTE CORON Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN On Mercury a day lasts 1,408 hours. Just like every Monday does on Earth. ANONYMOUS If he could go back, choose another career, my father would have liked to have been an environmental... SARAH KOENIG We're going to enjoy another day on orbit and we'll see you on Earth tomorrow. EILEEN COLLINS Inviolable, untrod; goddesses, Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide. SOPHOCLES Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. JIM HARRISON The rocky and rough surface of the asteroid was surprising. The 16-minute light travel time [between... DONALD YEOMANS Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right. ROBERT ANTHONY If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi... GARY RUDZ The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does... RAHEEL FAROOQ Song of myself Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid... WALT WHITMAN And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. A... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now. JACKIE SPEIER Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather t... CHOGYAM TRUNGPA You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what arc... BEN NICHOLSON It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our b... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never kn... W. BRUCE CAMERON The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of
each and every town or city. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. We?re all basketball players, and were all out there on the court, ... We all live together on this ... YAO MING That’s the thing about living on the earth – we humans can make all sorts of decisions and plans... HEIDI BARR When we look at the space at night, the deep emptiness and the frightening darkness in the universe ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport... ALLEN R. HUNT An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enor... YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth KAHLIL GIBRAN Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life... C. JOYBELL C. If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth HARRY S TRUMAN If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly ... RANDY ALCORN If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky GEORGE HERBERT You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to ... BORIS PASTERNAK With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With ou... JOSEPH CAMPBELL When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Eart... GENE CERNAN Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger tha... MICHIO KAKU Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. DENNIS ALEJO Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs. STEVE G. MAKRIS The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the mo... JIM LOVELL The view of Earth is spectacular. SALLY RIDE Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing i... TAHAR BEN JELLOUN If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer a... THICH NHAT HANH In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one ... CORMAC MCCARTHY This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they m... ANGELA CARTER All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities... KILROY J. OLDSTER Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day HELEN RICE There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enoug... NATHAN MYHRVOLD No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like ... PAUL DAVIES When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. <... SHARON WEIL We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. KURT VONNEGUT, JR. We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. KURT VONNEGUT We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap. KURT VONNEGUT Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of hu... DAVID SUZUKI In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares comm... HERBERT A. SIMON Cleo has been here in the past, and all the kids loved him, so we brought him back. But we're really... JOANNE SCHOCH So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and... ZORA NEALE HURSTON If you listen closely you will hear the spirits sigh a lesson lost on humans; an enchanting lul... NICOLINE EVANS Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. LEWIS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produc... ALICE WALKER When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced JOHN M SHEEHAN The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your sh... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and tha... PABLO NERUDA Satan thought he won that day because he took a devout Christian man off this Earth. I feel that God... DAWN PRENDES We recycle bottles and cans, and we have a lot of pets because we love animals. It's important to ce... LEAH SMITH Earth Day activities take place not just on April 22 but sometimes days, even weeks, before and afte... HOPE SIMON I have a dream... I dream of undoing the damage we've done. I dream of clean ... BROOKE HAMPTON It's Earth day I wonder if we can plant more trees than people for a change? STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama... ALICE WALKER This event created a complete blackout of high-frequency communications on the day-lit side of Earth... LARRY COMBS We've got the greatest job on earth and we feel lucky every single day. Besides, if you're not a lit... KRISTIAN BUSH I can see only three planets in the entire universe, namely Heaven, Earth and Me! Heaven shines its ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumin... KEVIN A. FORD Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, ... PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. LEWIS Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C.S. LEWIS You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have. JEFF RICH People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid t... LYNN MARGULIS Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step ... AMIT RAY I think he was very ahead of his time in his thinking because he could see what we were doing to Mot... ALICE BILLINGS Please, amigo. We need you, Kimosabe, O Mighty Powerful One. We need you more than the earth rises i... SIMONE ELKELES I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. KURT VONNEGUT It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. NICOLAS CAUSSIN The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on tryin... SUZY KASSEM
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