I love when people will engage in conversation about the planet’s beauty; everyone has experienced it at one point or another, whether it’s camping, traveling in a different country, or walking to the grocery store. We are so lucky. I always bring up what I call the Star Wars comparison (or Star Trek if it makes you feel better). In those universes, there are thousands of planets with all these different crazy environments. There’s the forest world that’s one big huge jungle, there’s the volcano and lava world that Anakin and Obi-Wan fight on, there’s that eerie, stormy water world where the clones are made, the list goes on. They’re all completely different and when you’re immersed in the story they definitely make you feel like it’s a galaxy full of awesome (literally) places. But you know what I tell people? This still blows my mind—Earth is all of those things. Earth has all of it—the jungles, the volcanoes, the oceans and storms… Earth has glaciers and mountains and huge forests and swamps and great plains and steppes and deserts and coral reefs and coastlines. It’s pretty amazing if you think about it. All of those crazy worlds in those stories were inspired by some place on Earth. And our world is not just one of those things, but all of them, all the time. Earth is simply incredible. I feel proud to be from this world, I’m honored to live here. It’s an unbelievable privilege. It sure is one big beautiful amazing world.