Carl Sagan:

"From this distant vantage point the Earth might not seem of any particular interest

but for us it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it, everyone

you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being there ever was lived

out their lives."

 

Thirteen thousand million miles from home

I am the Voyager 1, transmission's on

Traveling out at thirty thousand miles per hour

I am the Voyager 1, transmission's on

 

I've contemplated Jovian rings, volcanic life on Io sings

I've seen Saturnian bands in bloom

And the atmosphere of it's Titan moon

But twenty six years ago today, towards the sun I turned my gaze

And I took a family photograph of you

And I saw a pale blue world and that's you

 

So let me take you by the hand and lead you out to no-man's land

Where the solar wind succumbs to interstellar space

If you could see what I have seen you'd maybe shed that self esteem

And throw away your coats of many colours

And I saw a pale blue world and that's here, that's home, that's you

 

Different places, different faces way beyond the sun

Forty thousand years or so my journey's just begun

Storing information to transmit to Mr Sagan

I hope he is still here today, I wish him well

And I saw a pale blue world and that's you

 

Carl Sagan: "...this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot."