Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vásárhelyi - A Shark's Fin meghódítása (Meru) 2015
Álmok után
Ady Endre: Álmok után
Gyermek vagyok. Temetőben
Tarka szárnyu pillangókat kergetek,
Átrohanok könnyü szívvel
Sok besüppedt, elfelejtett sír felett.
Gyermek vagyok. Megfürösztöm
A ragyogó napsugárban lelkemet,
Nem látom a hervasztó őszt,
Csak a fényes, napsugáros életet.
Gyermek vagyok, kinek lelkén
Minden napfény, minden sugár átragyog,
Eltemetek, elfelejtek
Minden sebet, minden régi bánatot.
Gyermekszívvel elfelejtem,
Hogy csalóka, ámitó az őszi fény
És hogy engem megcsalt eddig
Minden álom, minden tündöklő remény.
Gyermek vagyok: temetőben
Tarka szárnyu pillangókat kergetek
S álmaimnak temetőjén
Csalogató álmok után sietek...
Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
"the hate of men will pass, and dictators die,"
Szigetköz
Pale Blue Dot
"Egy napsugárban lebegő porszem..."
“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 there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
Happy Pale Blue Dot Day.
To hear Carl Sagan’s words in his own voice, watch this beautiful video: https://youtu.be/3F2NeH_-f34?si=dqc5ST-8xDA_IjZK
Háromhuta
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