World Photography Day

It’s August 19th, and that means it’s World Photography Day! And at Mylio, we love to celebrate all kinds of photography.

Since plenty of people out there are posting photos from around the world, we thought we’d do things a little differently and share photos of the world. 

So, here they are. Pictures of our tiny blue marble. The pale blue dot. The third rock from the sun. Earth.

Photos of Earth

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Look again at 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 who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Carl Sagan

You cannot 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.

Jane Goodall

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Neil Armstrong

Photos from Above

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I look at our planet, I don’t see any borders. So I see you as a citizen of earth just like me. This is who we truly are.

Roxana Jones

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Attenborough

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
W. H. Auden

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

Marshall McLuhan

The Astronaut Perspective

I find it curious that I never heard any astronaut say that he wanted to go to the Moon so he would be able to look back and see the Earth. We all wanted to see what the Moon looked like close up. Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the Moon but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone in infinite black space.

Alan Bean

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally, it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart.

James Irwin

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire — the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Ellen Ochoa

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that.”

Edgar Mitchell

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

And above all, Pictures of Earth!

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”

Sylvia Plath

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Douglas Adams

 

Well, there you have it. During our globetrotting, we saw a lot of planet Earth. Above all, I hope you got a sense of global perspective. And I hope you enjoyed our version of World Photography Day. It’s the one world we’ve got, so let’s take care of it!