Stephanie

“Continents and countries come one after the other and the earth feels – not small, but almost endlessly connected, an epic poem of flowing verses.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Because who can look at man’s neurotic assault on the planet and find it beautiful? Man’s hubris. A hubris so almighty it’s matched only by his stupidity. And these phallic ships thrust into space are surely the most hubristic of them all, the totems of a species gone mad with self-love.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“In the photograph Collins took, there’s the lunar module carrying Armstrong and Aldrin, just behind them the moon, and some two hundred and fifty thousand miles beyond that the earth, a blue half-sphere hanging in all blackness and bearing mankind. Michael Collins is the only human being not in that photograph, it is said, and this has always been a source of great enchantment. Every single other person currently in existence, to mankind’s knowledge, is contained in that image; only one is missing, he who made the image.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“The Milky Way is a smoking trail of gunpowder shot through a satin sky.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital