# 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]]
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## 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]]