“The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we’ll all die.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsHelpingEarthDiesCryPlanetsAskingKillingIllWoodsOilOur PlanetMother NatureMineralsAsking For Help Author:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
“Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” PeopleWellsDreamDiesGoes OnStonesWoodsLegendsFragileUnreal Book:Choke: A Novel Source: Choke: A Novel
“Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.” IfsMenLittlesFacesDiesNamesNumbersMysteryCryStrangeRainOvercomingWoodsInsaneOur FamilyGasOne ManThroatTornChamberCapsSpitAccommodatePassivityPower Of OneGas Chambers Author:Tadeusz Borowski
“So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.” MenDiesJesusSacrificeTreeHe ManWoodsSavingSinnerNailsBentInfancy Author:Octavius Winslow
“It starts with water. The kid who doesn't get to go to school because he's looking for water around his neck of the woods, that kid doesn't learn about HIV and then dies from AIDS. Or cholera or whatever. It all links back.” KidsSchoolDiesWaterWoodsAidsNecksLinksHivCholera Author:Kenna
“I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.” TogetherDiesMagicHusbandSittingLonelyWoodsMy HusbandPillsLonely Places Author:Isabel Allende