1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
“Earth was once molten rock, and now it makes spaceships.”
Brian Swimme (1950) American cosmologist
Found on Pilgrimage to NASA's Apollo Flight Center http://thegreatstory.org/nasa-houston.html write up by Connie Barlow, a fellow in Evolutionary Spirituality
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
Marshall McLuhan
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Statement in 1965, in reference to Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963) by Buckminster Fuller, as quoted Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds (2005) by Daniel A. Vallero, p. 367
1960s
“A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.”
Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
“Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.”
Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892) founder of the Bahá'í Faith
Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/TB/index.html <!-- p. 22 --> <br class="br">Context: It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space
Облетев Землю в корабле-спутнике, я увидел, как прекрасна наша планета. Люди, будем хранить и преумножать эту красоту, а не разрушать её!
Russian phrase, handwritten and signed after his historic spaceflight, photo of facsimile published in Syny goluboi planety 3rd.edition (1981) by L. Lebedev, A. Romanov, and B/ Luk'ianov; the first edition was translated into English as Sons of the Blue Planet (1973) by L. A. Lebedev
