In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which affect all of mankind. But local solutions, inevitably conditioned by local interests, are required for the problems peculiar to each human settlement.

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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

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

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

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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my spaceship and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

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There are no passengers on spaceship Earth - we are all the crew.

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