You can not get through a single day without having an impact on the World around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. I am praying to the great spiritual power that I feel so strongly in the wild places, to give me ...
If humans Disappeared / Wenn die Menschheit Verschwindet / Se seres humanos Desapareceram / Si humanos Desaparecieron
Humans tend to think of Earth as ours. But the planet was here long before we came on the scene, and it will probably be here long after we leave. Our existence is a mere blip on Earth's time scale: the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and modern Humans have only been on it for ...
From the children of planet Earth / Von den Kindern des Planeten Erde / Dos filhos do planeta Terra / De los hijos del planeta Tierra
Earth is destroying itself. Help us! Please help! Send better knowledge. Taken from a bulletin board where kids were invited to post messages they want to convey to aliens. Several of them were pleas for help. This child’s missive was especially poignant. Scientists are the smartest astronomers and physicists in the World. But they need ...
We are on Earth / Wir sind auf der Erde / Estamos na Terra / Estamos en la Tierra
The Earth is so many things and we are many things as well. We are made up from the earth in a complex yet simple way. When we die, we go back to the earth in whatever way that may be, whether in ashes or whole. In a lot of ways we are very similar to ...
Who speaks for Earth / Wer spricht für die Erde / Quem fala pela Terra / Quién habla por la Tierra
We are children equally of the Earth and the sky. In our tenure on this planet we have accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage: propensities for aggression and submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders. All of which puts our survival in some doubt. But we have also acquired compassion for others, Love for our children, a desire to learn ...
Look without Seeing / Schau ohne zu sehen / Olhe sem Ver / Mira sin Ver
Most of us sense that the Earth is more than a sphere of rock with a thin layer of air, ocean and life covering the surface. We feel that we belong here as if this planet were indeed our home. Long ago the Greeks, thinking this way, gave to the Earth the name Gaia. In those ...
The epoch of Mankind / Die Epoche des Menschen / A época Humana / La época Humana
The Earth will continue without us, and it will hardly notice we are gone, just as it hardly knew we were here. A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet. The Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting Human changes to the Earth. From ...
The web of Life / Das Netz des Lebens / A teia da Vida / La web de la Vida
Over billions of years of evolution, the Earth's ecosystems have evolved certain principles of organization to sustain the web of life. In the coming decades, the survival of humanity will depend on our ecological literacy – our ability to understand the basic principles of ecology and to live accordingly. Ecoliteracy must become a critical skill for politicians, ...
My love letter to Planet Earth / Mein Liebesbrief an den Planeten Erde / Minha carta de amor ao planeta Terra / Mi carta de amor al planeta Tierra
I send you a little note to remind you how much I love you, appreciate you and respect you and your incredible beauty. We have come a long way, you and I. My heart is full of remorse about what is happening to you. You never asked for this. Greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, ...
Hostile Planet / Feindlicher Planet / Planeta Hostil / Planeta Hostil
Earth may be the only place we know that is full of diverse life but that does not make it a friendly planet. Against all odds, species have found ways to survive in the World’s most inhospitable landscapes. Every day is a struggle to survive, but animals continue to adapt to the toughest challenges. The epic battles ...
1976-12-05 Rheydt, Germany / Oxygen / Sauerstoff / Oxigênio / Oxígeno
Who would refuse to listen to the album that surrounded your youth, your childhood or even your entire life. The electronic scene did not yet exist in 70's. Electronic music was still considered avant-garde and provided a cultural shock. There was only a group of fans and some individuals. For the rest of my life I heard ...
The Solar System / Das Sonnensystem / O sistema Solar / El sistema Solar
Only 24 men have seen the Earth from outside low orbit as they journeyed to the Moon on the Apollo missions of the late 1960's and 1970's. For all of those lucky men and women who have travelled great distances away from our planet, what was it like to look back at Earth? Those men who have ...
1972-12-07 Space / The blue Marble / Der blaue Marmor / O mármore Azul / El mármol Azul
The Blue Marble is an image of the Earth made on December 7, 1972, at 05:39 a.m. EST by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 29,000 kilometers from the surface. It is one of the most reproduced images in Human history. Apollo 17 was the last manned lunar mission. No Human since has ...
Pacha Mama / Mother Earth / Mutter Erde / Mãe Terra / Madre Tierra / Pacha Mama
Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. She is also known as the Earth/time mother. In Inca mythology, Pachamama is a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting, embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes. She is also an ever-present and independent deity who has her own self-sufficient and creative power to sustain life on this Earth. The ...