More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
Valentina TereshkovaRead
Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
Interpretation
Experiencing space makes one realize the Earth's vulnerability and significance.
Valentina Tereshkova's quote highlights the profound perspective gained from viewing Earth from space. It suggests that such a unique vantage point fosters a deeper appreciation for our planet's fragility and size in the vast universe, encouraging a sense of responsibility towards its preservation.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about environmental conservation.
More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.
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We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didnβt ever feel like talking loud, and it warnβt often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.
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