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BOOKS ABOUT
EARTH AND
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Earth: Smithsonian
Earth:
Smithsonian


Earth & Astronomy
Visions of
the Future:
Astronomy &
Earth Science


Project Earth Science: Astronomy
Project Earth
Science: Astronomy


Earth
Earth


Earth: Our Planet in Space
Earth: Our
Planet
in Space


Earth CD-ROM
Earth and the
Inner Planets
(CD-ROM)


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Earth from Space Educational Astronomy Posters
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Earthshapes Poster
Earthshapes
Posters

Planet Earth Wall Poster

Earth [] is the third planet orbiting the Sun in the Solar System and the largest terrestial planet (solid as opposed to gaseous).

The “great circle” distance on Earth's equatorial circumference is roughly 24,902 miles (40,000 km). The polar circumcumference is 24,860 miles which means the Earth “spreads out” around at the equator as it spins on its polar axis. See circumnavigate.

The Earth's orbit of the Sun takes approximately 365 days; days are approximately 24 hours, measured by the rotation of the Earth on its polar axis. Seasons are the result of the tiny differences in the distance of the Earth's surface from the Sun due to axis tilt of Earth as we orbit the Sun. The Earth's largest natural orbiting satellite is the Moon.

Scientific theory states that the planet Earth formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago and has evolved through geological and biological processes. It is the only planet currently known to harbor life which consists of approximately 7 billion humans (2013).

Geography is scientific study of the Earth's physical features, resources, climate, and human interventions.


Quotes about Earth ~
• “We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.” ~ William A. Anders
• “For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” ~ James Baldwin
• “...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.” ~ Wendell Berry
• “With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens.” ~ Joseph Campbell
• “It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.” ~ Rachel Carson
• “What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the Earth.” ~ Norman Cousins
• “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” ~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• “The earth laughs in flowers.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “I see Earth! It is so beautiful.” ~ Yuri Gagarin
• “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
• “Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars.” ~ William Golding
• “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
• “The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.” ~ Oliver Wendel Holmes, Sr.
• “Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” ~ Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, 1948
• “We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.” ~ James E. Lovelock
• “On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
• “Suddenly, from behind the rim of the Moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth . . . home.” ~ Astronaut Edgar Mitchell
• “Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.” ~ Christopher Morley
• “The Earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.” ~ Lewis Mumford
• “Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
• “There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
• “The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” ~ Pope John Paul II
• “The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
• “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ~ Rilke
• “The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.” ~ Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
• “Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as they swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch.” ~ Chief Seattle
• “What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?” ~ Henry David Thoreau
• “This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?” ~ Henry David Thoreau
• “We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.” ~ George Macaulay Trevelyan
• “I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson



You Are Here- Milky Way Galaxy Poster
You Are Here- Poster



You Are Here

Carl Sagan quote from a public lecture delivered October 13, 1994 - "Look 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, 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 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 better no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

• Carl Sagan's Cosmic Calendar
• more Stars Charts posters


Pale Blue Dot from ORDER on Vimeo.


Timeline of Earth's History, Photographic Print
Timeline of Earth's History,
Photographic Print

Timeline of Earth's History - each square equals 100 million years ...

Formation of the Sun - First oceans - Formation of the Moon - Earth forms 4.5 billion years ago - Earliest know life 3.5 to 4.2 billion years ago - First cells with nuclei, First protozoa and algae 3-4 billion years ago - Oxygen begins to replace CO2 in atmosphere 2-2.3 billion years ago - First oxygen-dependent life - Today's level of oxygen in atmosphere 1 billion years ago - Explosion of life 700 million years ago - Trilobites and other hard-shelled sea creatures 550 million years ago - Fish and amphibians, great forests 400 million years ago - Reptilies and precursors of mammals, Great Extinction 250 million years ago - Dinosaurs 250-65 million years ago - Rise of mammals 65 million years ago to present -


Earth, Apollo 17, Dec 1972- NASA, Poster
Earth, Apollo 17,
Dec 1972- NASA
Poster

Topographic & Bathymetric Shading of Full Earth, Photographic Print
Topographic & Bathymetric Shading of Full Earth,
Photographic Print

Moon posters • more map posters

Living Earth Art Print (North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia)
Living Earth
Art Print

Earth by Day
(North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia)

Continents posters


Earth At Night Map Art Print
Earth At Night Map
Art Print

Earth by Night

This intriguing National Geographic map reveals in stunning detail the pulsating lights of the Earth at night. See where populations are concentrated. The rare view is a composite image made by three satellites on cloud-free nights over a one-year period.

world class cities posters


Europe at Night Wall Poster
Earth Centered on
Europe at Night
Photographic Print

Europe at Night

Lights along the coast and of cities trace the landscape of Europe.


Earth Rise Art Print
Earth Rise
Poster

Earth Daybreak from Space Art Print
Earth Daybreak
from Space
Art Print

Moon posters • more map posters

Four Storms in the Atlantic Ocean, Photographic Print
Four Storms in the Atlantic Ocean, Photographic Print

Storms from Space

• more weather & climate


Fully Lit Full Disk Image Centered on the South Pole, Photographic Print
Fully Lit Full Disk Image
Centered on the South Pole,
Photographic Print

Antarctia From Space

• more Antarctica posters


Earth - Fuller Projection Poster
Earth - Fuller Projection Poster

Our Spaceship Earth
Fuller Projection Map -
(“Dymaxion” map by Buckminster Fuller, projection onto a polyhedron net which can be unfolded in many ways as a 2-dimensional map retaining most of the relative proportions.)


Astronaut Wall Poster
Astronaut Wall
Poster

Astronaut Wall Poster

• more Astronaut posters


NASA International Space Station Fine Art Print
NASA International
Space Station
Art Print

NASA International Space Station

• more Space Exploration posters
Explorers posters


Hands with Earth, Photographic Print
Hands with Earth,
Photographic Print

Hands with Earth

peace posters
environment posters
Earth posters
Teilhard de Chardin posters


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