The nineteen sixties were some of the most tumultuous years for the United States. Unprecedented revolutions swept the nation year after year and ranged from all manners of subjects. Racism, the Veitnam War, the JFK and MLK assasinations, as well as other occurences dramatically changed the course of this nation. That is what this picture did for the country going forward as well. This distant shot of our earth was the first photograph of our planet captured by astronauts on the moon. The beauty of our planet was something that the American people, and the world for that matter, had never fully experienced and it was that beauty that spurred a great environmentalist movement in the United States.
People looked for the first time upon the vibrant greens and blues and whites that earth contained and collectively thought: this world is truly magnificent. Not all of these people did something about this enlightenment, but some people did start the "green" movement. That is why this picture can be considered one of the most influential images of the modern era, because of the differneces that have been made to keep our planet as natural and as mystifying as this picture.
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