"Viewed from distance of the moon,the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive.The photographs show the dry pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as old bone. Aloft,floating free beneath the moist,gleaming membrane of bright blue sky,is the rising earth,the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos..It has the organised ,self-contained look of a live creature,full of information,marvellously skilled in handling the sun."
Lewis Thomas