"The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies."

-- Rusty Schweickart

#Future Quotes #Space Quotes #Earth Quotes

“For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.”
“There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.”
“A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do thingsagainst himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.”
“[I]f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.”
“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
“Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.”
“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.”
“Do not do that which you would not have known.”

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