Street Dogs
Where the grass is green and the sun rises every day
"We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions"
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” — Ray Bradbury "Look again at that dot. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, 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 "Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impress...
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