if the earth were small..

If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter,floating a few feet above a field somewhere,

people would come from everywhere to marvel at it.
...People would walk around it,
marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools,
and the water flowing between the pools.

People would marvel at the bumps on it,
and the holes in it, and the different areas on it.
And they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas
surrounding it and at the water suspended in the gas.

People would marvel at all the creatures in the water,
and at the green vegetation growing on the surface.
The people would declare it as sacred, because
it was the only one, and they would protect it
so that it would not be hurt.

The ball would be the greatest wonder known,
and people would come to pray to it, to be healed,
to gain its knowledge, to know its great beauty,
and to defend it with their lives because they would
somehow know that their lives, their own roundness,
could be nothing without it.

from Abdul Razak Manan, TCP Presenter