“A place to show her children: and you belong to the earth, and the earth is hard.”
“You belong to the earth and the earth is hard.”
“I don't know if there is any place on this earth that I belong.”
“We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.”
“The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”
“Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.”