Travel with Rick Steves · Saturday, July 25, 2026
Chris Hadfield emphasizes that seeing the Earth from space highlighted its incredible fragility and beauty, likening it to a 'fragile jewel.' This perspective instilled a strong sense of responsibility to protect the planet.
“And the Earth is this enormous, incredibly gifted planet that we live on. And it's the only one that we have. And I think that what we saw from the space station was the earth, the whole earth. And we really do see it as this incredibly fragile planet.”
“And it's like a fragile jewel in the in the darkness of space. And so we have a tremendous responsibility to take care of it.”