“We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.” EarthAsksNamesShareBirthOffersBlameKillingLandscapeExquisiteAsking For Forgiveness Book:99 Poems: New & Selected Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.” WayHumansMadeStillsSoulSeemsArtistCultureModernPaintingBirthMade ItLandscapeDozenEchoesHuman SoulRoamingNeanderthals Author:Werner Herzog
“It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.” MenEarthMotherWonderAliveRocksPlanetsBirthOne DayMoonAchievementIncrediblesCaughtLandscapeStaringObsessedOur TimeDryCosmosGlimpseGatheringAstonishingMother EarthDesolateGreatest Achievement Author:Jon Stewart
“Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.” PeopleNeedsMovingLife IsOur LivesJourneyBirthConstantTrainLandscapeStationsKeep MovingLife Is LikeNeed A Change Book:Aleph Source: Aleph
“Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.” EndsWaterPiecesSeaKeysBirthShapesMetaphorAccidentsLandscapeLionsCrucialBowlsGeographyProteinAnalystsSnail Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters