To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night—brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), U.S. poet. repr. As “Bubble of Blue Air” in Riders on Earth (1978). “Riders on Earth Together, Brothers in Eternal Cold,” New York Times (Dec. 25, 1968).
Of the first pictures of the earth from the moon.