32 Quotes by Rusty Schweickart

You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It’s so small and so fragile – you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.

There’s no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

We got to the moon.

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.