Richard P. Feynman, in his book "The Meaning of It All - Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist", a collection of three lectures given at the University of Washington, writes on page 29 of a vision that describes thoughts that also have occurred to me (and without doubt to many others as well):
"It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in the great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are fully appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to view life as part of this universal mystery of greatest depth, is to sense an experience which is very rare, and very exciting."
From his PBS television series "Cosmos" based on his book of the same title, Carl Sagan in the following clips gives a vivid account to illustrate (in Feynman's words) "the mystery and majesty" of the universe, of our planet Earth and of how life arose:
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