Mariam

“لا لم تعد ابنتي لزيارتي أبدا. وأنا لا ألومها، فلماذا تعود؟ لقد أنقذتني أصلا ونطقت بالكلمات الشافية. كنت أستعيد صوابي وأتسلق ببطء جدران هاويتي الداخلية. وأصارع! ... كانت معركة أخوضها بمفردي.”
― Amin Maalouf, Ports of Call

“The problem of modern man is no longer so much how he can live with gods and demons, but how he can survive with the bomb, revolution and the destruction of the balance of nature. He usurps more and more of nature and takes it under his control. The vital question for him, therefore, is how this world which he has usurped can be human- ized.36 His main problem is no longer the universal finitude which he experiences in solidarity with all other creatures, but the humanity of his own world.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology

“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”
― Daphne Sheldrick

“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
― George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe