"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
保护,珍惜这颗蓝色星球，人类所知的唯一家园。
Today, April 22, is Earth Day — something you've probably noticed if you searched Google today.
今天是4月22日，地球日——当你使用谷歌时可能便注意到了。
Today's Google's Doodle features Dr. Jane Goodall, one of the planet’s most influential conservationists and environmental advocates.
今日，谷歌涂鸦以世界上最具影响力的自然环境保护主义者和环保倡议者，珍·古德博士为其主题。
Earth Day was founded to force environmental protection onto the political agenda. The inaugural Earth Day on April 22 in 1970 saw more than 20 million Americans rallying for environmental causes. And Earth Day is as relevant today as it's ever been.
创立世界地球日的初衷是为了促使政府将环境保护提上议程。1970年4月22日是第一个世界地球日，在那天，超过两千万的美国人为了环境保护事业聚集在了一起。直至今日，它依然意义重大。
This year's Earth Day is focused on ending plastic pollution – a timely topic, considering the giant floating mass of plastic in the Pacific Ocean that's three times the size of France.
今年的世界地球日聚焦塑料污染的解决办法。太平洋上漂浮的塑料垃圾的面积是法国国土面积的三倍，这一事实体现了话题的及时性。
A study in Nature this week revealed that 30 percent of the Great Barrier Reef's corals were killed in the “catastrophic” coral bleaching episode in 2016.
2016年大堡礁发生了灾难性的珊瑚褪色事件，自然杂志这周的研究显示，百分之三十的珊瑚那时没能存活下来。
Earth Day is a good time to remember the so-called "overview effect" experienced by astronauts. Recognise that we live on a beautiful, fragile ball of life, protected by a paper-thin atmosphere, with our fate in our own hands. And pause. And be thankful. And try to do good.
世界地球日是一个很好的日子。它让我们记住宇航员们经历过的所谓“总观效应”，也让我们认识到我们生活在一个美丽却脆弱的生命星球。纸片般轻薄的大气层保护着它，我们掌握着它的命运，也掌握着我们自己的。停下来，感恩，然后尝试做一些好事。
Here's a bunch of reasons we need to fix the Earth...
以下是一些我们之所以需要修复地球的原因…
"Look again at that dot. That's here. 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." – Carl Sagan
再看一下这个点吧。它就在那儿，那就是我们的家，我们的一切。在那儿，有你爱的每个人，有你认识的每个人，你听说过的每个人，历史上的每一个人，都在那度过了他们的一生。——卡尔·萨根
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." ― Henry David Thoreau
“天堂在我们脚下，也在我们头上。”——亨利·戴维·梭罗
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." ― Neil Armstrong
“我突然意识到，这个小如豌豆的漂亮的蓝色物体，就是地球。我伸出了一根手指，闭上了一只眼睛，手指遮住了地球。那一刻，我并不觉得它多么地巨大，我只觉得它非常非常渺小。”-尼尔·阿姆斯特朗
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." – Frank Lloyd Wright
我唯一信奉的上帝是自然。——兰克·劳德埃·赖特
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
在银河系的西部螺旋臂的不起眼的末端有一个不起眼的黄色太阳。在大约九千二百万英里的距离上绕着一个微不足道的蓝绿色星球，其猿猴进化而来的生命形态是如此的原始，以至于他们仍然认为数字手表是一个非常棒的想法。”——道格拉斯·亚当斯，《银河系漫游指南》
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." ― John Muir
穿越广袤森林是通往宇宙的捷径。—— 约翰·缪尔
"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans." – Jacques Cousteau
“水和空气是所有生命赖以生存的两种流体，现在已成为全球污染的垃圾桶。” - 雅克库斯托
"Believe me, this planet has put up with much worse than us. It’s been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, solar flares, sun-spots, magnetic storms, pole reversals, planetary floods, worldwide fires, tidal waves, wind and water erosion, cosmic rays, ice ages, and hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets, asteroids, and meteors. And people think a few plastic bags and aluminum cans are going to make a difference?" – George Carlin
“相信我，这个星球忍受的远比我们要糟糕得多。它经历了地震、火山、板块构造、太阳耀斑、太阳黑子、磁暴、磁极变换；全球性的洪水、火灾、海啸、风和水蚀；宇宙射线、冰河世纪，以及数十万年的彗星、小行星和流星轰击。那人们认为几个塑料袋和铝罐会对它产生什么作用吗?”——乔治·卡林
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." – Cree Proverb
只有当最后一棵树死了，最后一条河被污染了，最后一条鱼被抓了，我们才会意识到我们不能靠吃钱存活下去。――克里族谚语
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." – Gandhi
“地球提供资源的足够满足每个人的需求，但不能满足每个人的贪欲。”——甘地
"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." – William Blake
一沙一世界，一花一天堂。双手握无限，刹那即永恒。——威廉·布雷克
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." – John Muir.
“当一个人拽着自然中的一样东西，他就会发现它与世界其他东西紧密相连。”——约翰·缪尔
"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature." – Neil deGrasse Tyson
尽管技术和发明使现代生活越来越便捷，只需要一场大灾难，这一切便会毁于一旦，这也提醒我们，身处地球，我们仍在自然的掌握中。——尼尔·道格拉斯·泰森
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." ― Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder.
“那些凝视地球之美的人发现，只要生命持续，他们的力量就会一直得以保留。”—雷切尔·卡森《奇迹的感觉》
"Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart." – Jim Irwin, Apollo 15
最终它缩成了一颗弹珠的大小，这是美丽地超乎想象的弹珠。这个美丽、温暖、活生生的物体看上去那么地脆弱纤弱，以至于你用一根手指去碰它，都会崩塌分裂。――吉姆·欧文，阿波罗15号
来源：
18 Reasons We Need To Get Our Shit Together And Save Planet Earth
https://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/save-planet-earth?utm_term=.wsoWrxYK8E#.msm8vdBL1V
