# Quote — Ann Druyan, Cosmos: Possible Worlds

> We all feel the chill our present casts on our future. Some part of us knows that we must awaken to action or doom our children to dangers and hardships we ourselves have never had to face. How do we rouse ourselves and keep from sleepwalking into a climate or a nuclear catastrophe that may not be reversed before it has destroyed our civilization and countless other species? How do we learn to value those things we cannot live without-air, water, the sustaining fabric of life on Earth, the future-more than we prize money and short-term convenience? Nothing less than a global spiritual awakening can transform us into who we must become.

- Author: [Ann Druyan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-druyan.md)
- Book: [Cosmos: Possible Worlds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-druyan/cosmos-possible-worlds.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-druyan/cosmos-possible-worlds/we-all-feel

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> The vastness of the universe-and love, the thing that makes the vastness bearable-is out of reach to the arrogant.

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> Carl made me want to be the best human being I could be.

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> When we fell in love, it was like discovering a new world. It was one that I had hoped was possible but had never been to before.

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