Nov
6
The life giving ray
How living beings share the sun's light
The light that reaches the earth from the sun changes mostly into warmth and sooner or later leaves our globe. The sun's energy has become the life-giving current, which all take a part of. (Gottfried Schatz, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 2.11.2009) Translation by Maryam Yahiaoui-Doktor
"The sun rose in Paderborn, with very peevish gesture. She had to indeed carry out an annoying deed. To light the dumb earth." - with these words from "Germany - a winter fable" Heinrich Heiner gives our earth an overly enlarged significance, even though in his bitter verses he had little else left for her. The sun pours only one tenth of a milliard of its light towards us - and more than a half of that is swallowed up or reflected back to space by our atmosphere.
The light that reaches the earth from the sun changes mostly into warmth and sooner or later leaves our globe. The sun's energy has become the life-giving current, which all take a part of. (Gottfried Schatz, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 2.11.2009) Translation by Maryam Yahiaoui-Doktor
"The sun rose in Paderborn, with very peevish gesture. She had to indeed carry out an annoying deed. To light the dumb earth." - with these words from "Germany - a winter fable" Heinrich Heiner gives our earth an overly enlarged significance, even though in his bitter verses he had little else left for her. The sun pours only one tenth of a milliard of its light towards us - and more than a half of that is swallowed up or reflected back to space by our atmosphere.
