# Whole Earth **Domain:** Planetary Imagery / Ecology / Systems **Doc Type:** Concept and Image Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Whole Earth Catalog]], [[Planetary Consciousness]], [[Earthrise]], [[Whole Systems Thinking]] --- ## Definition **Whole Earth** names the planetary perspective made culturally powerful by space-age images of Earth as one bounded, luminous system. ## Corpus Context The image joins [[Spaceship Earth]], ecology and computation by making planetary interdependence visually graspable. In [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]], it is a 1969-era receiving image: humanity sees its habitat from outside while learning to manage it through systems. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Whole Earth Catalog]], [[Planetary Consciousness]], [[Earthrise]], [[Whole Systems Thinking]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]