“If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go”
“We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.”
“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
“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.”
“But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”
“When everything else is in ruins, family is all we have. And God, of course.”