Well Said William Shatner!✨🇨🇦🚀💫🪐 🌎
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
“I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
“I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
“This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.”
— William Shatner, actor❤️🇨🇦❤️
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Anette Coles
People with power and money are killing our beautiful earth. The grass may be greener on the other side but mother earth hopefully will stay green forever. 🌏🌎🌍❤
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Jake Crowley
When the truth spoken people will listen. May we learn a lesson from this and continue to help the Earth, and not harm it.
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Ernst Boergers
Remember that little blue marble? The goldilocks planet? It’s the only one around and mankind is not being very kind to this one and only planet.
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