Once Again: Planet Earth Wins 'Best Planet Ever, Anywhere' Award 2017. Judges Highlight 30 Reasons

1. Inspiring surrounds are never far from you: a walk, a run, a cycle ride will do it. 
2. The note-book shops of Tokyo.
3. Liquid water at 20 degrees Celsius.
4. Yet less dense than water when frozen.
5. Plentiful art galleries.
6. Sun-sets, sun-rises and full moons.
7. The doppio espresso in Milan. 
8. The elusive snow leopard.
9. Breathable atmosphere.
10. A metric called time which allows mental time-travel along its axis both back to the past and into the future.
11. Sea-shores, mountains, swamps, jungle and deserts.
12. Incredible racial and cultural diversity.
13. Five awesome senses.
14. The Beatles.
15. Elegant, spherical design of planet.
16. Practical problems of 13 solved with cool force gravity: so light and flexible that rarely noticed.
17. More good box-sets than you could watch in a life-time.
18. The fixie bicycle.
19. Salisbury cathedral.
20. Precision language which allows scientific explanation, cross-word puzzles and poetry.
21. Barbecues.
22. A protocol called courtesy which allows rapid rapport.
23. Photographs. The ones you hold, keep in your wallet, stick on your pc.
24. Libraries and free books. 
25. The Isle of Mull.
26. More peace and less war than ever before.
27. Love, hope and holding hands in the cinema.
28. A synapse-based brain which allows fresh and unique ideas.
29. Magic.
30. Inhabited with creatures who keep coming up with cool stuff and most of the time are trying their best.