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In a beautiful place

A picture essay about the perfection of nature and the beauty of our world - Shown in big and small

»Oh my God! Look at that pic­ture over there! There’s the Earth coming up. Wow, that’s pretty.« »You got a color film, Jim? Hand me that roll of color quick, would you …« »Oh man, that’s great!«

Earth­rise is the name of the NASA photo AS8-14-2383HR taken by Wil­liam Anders from the Apollo 8 space cap­sule. The image was taken on 24 Decem­ber 1968 during the fourth of ten plan­ned orbits of the moon: an iconic pho­tog­rap­hic record that chan­ged our view of the Earth fore­ver. Audio recor­dings and transc­rip-tions of the mis­sion are ava­ilable online on the NASA web­site. Above is an ext­ract of the con­ver­sa­tion bet­ween Apollo 8 crew mem­bers Bill Anders and Jim Lovell.

51°42’53.6“N 004°22’38.8“E

The design voca­bu­lary of nature is ext­re­mely comp­lex but not shoc­king.

19°10’02.6“S 127°47’07.0“E

Not­hing in nature is out of place, no stone in the wrong posi­tion. Nature itself, howe­ver it appe­ars, is neces­sa­rily bea­uti­ful.

34°44’27.9“N 054°48’57.7“E

Beauty unfolds in its struc­ture, rhythm and repe­ti­tion.

28°18’03.7“N 015°56’54.7“W

Anyt­hing that doesn’t work or is superf­lu­ous is devo­ured by the weat­her or evo­lu­tion. What rema­ins is cla­rity, endu­rance and rene­wal.

39°17’50.4“S 174°03’46.4“E

In order to pre­serve it, it is neces­sary to think in cycles and not in short-term trends.

64°13’34.5“N 017°02’35.1“W

Besi­des form, mate­rial and appe­arance, it needs anot­her quality for us to feel somet­hing is bea­uti­ful: time.

40°45’23.7“N 074°00’29.5“W

Back to nature does not mean sac­ri­fice but profit beca­use the beauty of nature is pur­po­se­ful, sus­ta­inable and the­re­fore eco­no­mic.

45°25’54.5“N 075°41’22.5“W

Nature and urba­nity are only oppo­si­tes where we have gene­ra­ted and con­ce­ived them as such with glass, conc­rete and asp­halt.

51°42’53.6“N 004°22’38.8“E

We feel at home where everyt­hing has its place: in the park, by the lake, in the open country­side.

What we do, under­take or pro­duce must be per­ma­nent and still make sense deca­des from now. This is how the world will remain a bea­uti­ful place for us. We have the tech­ni­cal oppor­tu­ni­ties, reso­ur­ces and kno­w­ledge for this.
Let’s get star­ted, let’s get on with it!

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