Audiobook - Adult - Christine Rendel

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set against the consuming blackness of space. The earth is a beguiling blue green ball. Barely two dozen people have ever experienced the emotion of seeing our planet from the moon and beyond. Yet the fragile beauty of the pictures they sent back home is engraved in the minds of a generation. Nothing compares. Petty human squabbles over borders and oil and creed vanish in the knowledge that this living marble, surrounded by infinite emptiness, is our shared home. On more ah, home we share with and oh to the most wonderful inventions of life. Life itself transformed our planet from the battered and fiery rock that once orbited a young star to the living beacon that is our world, seen from space. Life itself turned our planet blue and green as tiny photosynthetic bacteria cleansed the oceans of air and sea and filled them with oxygen. Powered by this new and potent source of energy, life erupted, flowers bloom and beckon. Intricate corals hide darting goldfish. Vast monsters lurk in black depths, trees reach for the sky, animals buzz and lumber and see. And in the midst of it all, we are moved by the untold mysteries of this creation we cosmic assemblies of molecules that think and feel and marvel on wonder at how we came to be here for the first time in the history of our planet. We know this is no certain knowledge, no stone tablet of truth, but the ripening fruits of mankind's greatest quest to know and understand the living world around us and within us.