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Space has a spiritual equivalent and can heal what is divided and burdensome in us. My grandchildren will probably use the space shuttles for a honeymoon trip or to recover from heart attacks, but closer to home we might also learn how to carry space inside ourselves in the effortless way we carry our skins. Space represents sanity, not a life purified, dull, or "spaced out" but one that might accommodate intelligently any idea
or situation ... We have only to took at the houses we build to see how we build against space, the way we drink against loneliness or pain. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.
-- Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces
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