“Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.” LittlesEarthNatureSpaceAnimalThousandEightMilesDimensionsSpaceshipsVastnessThousand MilesVastness Of Space Book:Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.” WorldWholeNatureAirModernTravelOceanSurfaceFlyingFlightPlanesDimensionsAviationAirplaneGlobesBlanketGreat AviationAir TravelAirplanes And FlyingWorld Is Small Author:Wendell Willkie