Kenneth Boulding Quote

In the imagination of those who are sensitive to the realities of our era, the earth has become a space ship, and this, perhaps, is the most important single fact of our day. For millennia, the earth in men's minds was flat and illimitable. Today, as a result of exploration, speed, and the explosion of scientific knowledge, earth has become a tiny sphere, closed, limited, crowded, and hurtling through space to unknown destinations. This change in man's image of his home affects his behaviour in many ways, and is likely to affect it much more in the future.


Kenneth Boulding (1965) Earth as a Spaceship Lecture May 10, 1965, Washington State University, Committee on Spaces Sciences


In the imagination of those who are sensitive to the realities of our era, the earth has become a space ship, and this, perhaps, is the most...

In the imagination of those who are sensitive to the realities of our era, the earth has become a space ship, and this, perhaps, is the most...

In the imagination of those who are sensitive to the realities of our era, the earth has become a space ship, and this, perhaps, is the most...

In the imagination of those who are sensitive to the realities of our era, the earth has become a space ship, and this, perhaps, is the most...