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“Jorden tilhører ikke mennesket. Det er menneskene, der tilhører Jorden. De duftende blomster er vore søstre, og hesten, den mægtige ørn, for ikke at tale om elgen, er vore brødre. Og hvordan kan man købe eller sælge noget som helst? For hvem ejer varmen i luften eller lyden af vinden i træerne? Og saften i grenene bærer erindringen om dem, der har levet før os. Og lyden af bækkens mumlen er er vores forfaders stemme. Og vi må lære vores børn, at jorden under deres fødder er forfædrenes akse, og at alt, hvad der overgår Jorden også overgår os, og hvis mennesket spytter på jorden, spytter det på sig selv.”

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Book:Doppler
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“El número total de galaxias del universo parece rondar los diez mil millones, y que cada una de ellas tiene alrededor de cien mil millones de estrellas del tamaño del Sol. Estos números son tan absurdos que extrañamente me ponen de buen humor. Es sobrecogedor.Poco puedo hacer que marque alguna diferencia. Resulta liberador. Mi propia responsabilidad se reduce considerablemente. Lo siento al momento. La sensación de responsabilidad se aligera. A toda velocidad. No soy casi nada. En realidad supongo que la idea debería asustarme, pero no lo siento así.”

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Book:Naïve. Super
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“Deter mulig at andre er helt klar over dette og har forsonet seg med det, men for meg ble det plutselig så tydelig at det alltid er natt og alltid dag og alltid morgen og kveld og alltid blir noen født mens andre dør og noen ligger med hverandre og noen ler og andre gråter og noen venter på ting eller arbeider. Alltid. Og i dag akkurat som i går og akkurat som en hvilken som helst annen dag i et hvilket som helst annet år. Og hvis jeg bryter det ned til mindre deler og tenker små øyeblikk, blir det svimlende, for da tenker jeg at akkurat nå, mens jeg ligger her og ser gjennom rommet og mot verandadøren som står på gløtt og solen som kommer inn i rommet, så opplever andre sine livs verste øyeblikk, noen er livredde og kommer til å bli drept på fryktelig vis i neste sekund, det vil si nå, eller nå, mens andre opplever fine ting og tar imot et lite barn eller blir strøket nedover ryggen av en de i går ikke trodde ville gjengjelde de sterke følelsene, og atter andre, sikkert de fleste, gjør ting som de i morgen på denne tiden vil ha problemer med å huske fordi det de gjorde ikke utgjør noen forskjell, men bare føyer seg inn i rekken av ting som vi hele tiden gjør og må gjøre. Idag er alle dager. Og alle øyeblikk er nå.”

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Book:Muleum
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“A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things: -45 litres of water -Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen -Enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches -Enough fat to make approximately 70 bars of soap -Enough iron to make a two inch nail -Enough carbon for 9,000 pencil points -A spoonful of magnesium I weigh more than 70 kilograms. And I remember a TV series called Cosmos. Carl Sagan would walk around on a set that was meant to look like space, speaking in large numbers. On one of the shows he sat in front of a tank full of all the substances human beings are made of. He stirred the tank with a stick wondering if he would be able to create life. He didn’t succeed.”

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Book:Naïve. Super
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“What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.”

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“We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.”

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“One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.”

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“...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.”

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Book:Naïve. Super
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“The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.”

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Book:Naïve. Super
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“But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by a window for hours watching it fall. The silence of snowfall. You can use that. It's best when there's background lighting, for example a street lamp. Or when you go outside and let it flutter down on you. That's real riches, that is.”

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