Photographs by NASA Earth Observatory
Title: Frank White

"The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts and cosmonauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from orbit or from the lunar surface." —Wikipedia

Also of note: Overview, the film.

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Hurricanes by NASA
Title: Goethe






































Inspired by Boing Boing

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Photographs by Michael Benson / NASA
Title: Edmond Schérer








































Title via Invisible Stories

Beginning of the quote: "We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing down too hard. Hit your heel into it and you make a hole in which you will disappear. True philosophy..."

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Photographs: NASA/GSFC/SDO
Title: VU
















via feuilleton

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Photographs by Don Pettit
Title: The Stoics




























via Retina via Boing Boing

Title quote found in Tomorrow’s Eve.

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