"The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization... lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. That's here. That's home. That's us". Full Movement List

The complete sequence of the piece consists of these eight movements: II. The Blue III. The Green IV. Moors V. Aurorae VI. Quiet as the Snow

: Concludes with a passage from Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot :

The "proper text" for the spoken parts of this composition includes: