As we approach Earth Day 2009, I wanted to share the picture and some of Carl Sagan's words about our "pale blue dot". Amid all our efforts at recycling and finding cleaner energy, and saving species--sometimes it helps to realize just how unique this earth really is.

"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 here - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Carl Sagan, from "Pale Blue Dot"