The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values. . . . Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor. . . If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.