Our book "Pale Blue •" is a homage to both an iconic photograph and an iconic person. The photograph is the one showing planet Earth, taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. This humbling view of Earth from 6.4 billion km away is known as the “Pale Blue Dot.”
The person is the astronomer Carl Sagan. In his 1994 book, "Pale Blue Dot", Carl Sagan comments on what he sees as the greater significance of the photograph.
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us..." -Carl Sagan
"Pale Blue •" is a symbolic trip from where humans are now, moving backwards to the origins of the Earth and showing how our relation with Nature has changed during this journey.
"...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." -Carl Sagan
Earth’s memories are stored within her strata. She talks to us through these records. But the information we have from Earth is incomplete, just as our memories are.
It is mankind’s task to decode this information to better understand what Earth is trying to tell us. This story is part truth and part a creation of our mind. But what really matters is that this story tells us who we are and where we come from.
The history of Earth and ours are interlinked. Once oceans covered the entire planet and life rose out of them.
Our existence evolved from the oceans. However, nowadays we are moving away from Nature.
But this split is merely a human perspective; whether we want it or not, we are part of this whole.
We are but a little anecdote in the evolution of our planet and in our pride, we state that we are the ones destroying the planet. The truth is that poisoning the oceans, the soil and the air, we are only destroying the human race.
Mother Earth has been without us for eons and she will go on. Earth is prepared to evolve and adapt in a way mankind cannot. There is only one way to stop this separation from our origins and it means to restore our relationship with the Oceans, the Earth and Nature as a whole.
Albarrán Cabrera
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