a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam

If you look at it, you see a dot. That's here.
 That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you 
ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, 
lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our 
joys and; sufferings, thousands of confident 
religions, ideologies and; economic doctrines, 
every hunter and; forager, every hero and; 
coward, every creator and; destroyer of 
civilizations, every king and; peasant, every 
young couple in love, every hopeful child, every 
mother and; father, every inventor and; 
explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt 
politician, every superstar, every supreme 
leader, every saint and; sinner in the history 
of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, 
suspended in a sunbeam

Carl Sagan (reminded of long ago by Kind over Matter)