#spaces

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#common #earth #everybody #fate #going

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#came #earth #fact #important #important fact

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#crew #earth #passengers #spaceship #spaceship earth

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#frightens #infinite #me #silence #spaces

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#earth #like #manual #operating #spaceship

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces. ↗

— Schuyler Fisk

#grow #grow up #horses #me #open

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#downside #environment #fertilizer #golf #great

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#everyday #explained #need #open #open spaces

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#another #any #close #enough #flowers