Aristotle. . . imputed this symphony of the heavens. . . this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. . . . But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony. . . If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.
When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile