“I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, Everything I ve ever known is behind my thumb.”
“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.”
“Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever.”
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
“The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!”
“What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down”
“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here. [Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
“We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities”
“How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can t destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don t they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?”
“Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.”
“Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don t see what s going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.”
“I ll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that s what s called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can.”
“Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.”
“Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.”
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal”
“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.”