“One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.” KindLightWould BeSpaceDealsAdvantageGravityCollectorsOrigami Author:Stewart Brand
“We need to do for clean energy what Kennedy did for space in the original Apollo Project: Set a bold vision that will light the fires of innovation and make a game-changing shift in how we use and produce energy. And nothing less is adequate.” NeedsUseLightGamesEnergySpaceVisionFireProduceProjectsInnovationOriginalsCleanAdequateApolloClean Energy Author:Jay Inslee
“Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.” IfsNeedsMindLightSpaceSilenceAirEssentialsPlantSilence IsCrowded Author:Nhat Hanh
“A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.” LightLanguageSpaceMaterialsConstruction Author:Sven Birkerts
“For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.” WantKindLightSpaceOne ThingColorPaintingAll KindsGentleTragicGesturesPossessedBrutalSoarJoyousPossessingSinkingAxesStreaming Author:Elaine de Kooning
“Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time.” LightSpaceDarknessLight And DarknessLight And Dark Author:Robert D. Hales
“Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.” FirstsStillsSelfRealityLightAgeTodaySongSoundVoiceSpaceDespairEternalHappeningsDestructionFilledLongingShiningNotesSilentRoundsNoiseFulfillmentArroganceMelodyHorizonAssuranceWeepingPipeHelplessnessRadiantAnnihilationAfarShine OnSelf Assurance Author:Alfred Delp