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

"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

(includes the "Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal," the world's oldest known melody) VIII. Ad Astra . all_the_works_of_nature_which_adorn_the_world_v...

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

The overall title itself was inspired by a quote from , who used the phrase to describe the artist's goal of imitating nature through their craft. Nightwish - Human. :||: Nature. - Nuclear Blast USA The "proper text" for the spoken parts of

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

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:I love not Man the less, but Nature more". That's home

: Features a quote from Lord Byron's poem, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage :