Carolina QuotesAstronomer Carl Sagan noted that even when it is viewed from so far away that it is a pale dot, Earth is discernibly blue.
Sylvia A. Earle Connected to the Carolinas
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- The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (2009)
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- 2009
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