One of my design instructors once said that if you surround yourself with garbage you will only ever produce garbage.
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut