Today a scientist posted a video of the Earth rising from the moon's horizon.
The rising Earth reminded me of George Stewart's Earth Abides. Here's from the end of Earth Abides:
Yet as a weary and dying old man, he needed something toward which he could look and from which he could expect no change. He was cold now around the waist, and his fingers were numb. His sight was fading. He fixed his eyes on the distant hills. He had tried very hard. He had struggled. He had looked to the past and to the future. What did it matter? What had he accomplished?
...Then, though his sight was now very dim, he looked again at the youngmen. “They will commit me to the earth,” he thought. “Yet I also commit them to the earth. There is nothing else by which men live. Men go and come, but earth abides.”
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