: Features a quote from Lord Byron's poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage :
"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... lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. That's here. That's home. That's us". Full Movement List all_the_works_of_nature_which_adorn_the_world_v...
: Concludes with a passage from Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot : : Features a quote from Lord Byron's poem,
(includes the "Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal," the world's oldest known melody) VIII. Ad Astra . thousands of confident religions
The complete sequence of the piece consists of these eight movements: II. The Blue III. The Green IV. Moors V. Aurorae VI. Quiet as the Snow