Max Downey

“In respect to mankind we all of us have but one task. To help mankind as a whole make some small advance, to better a particular institution, to do away with one particular mode of killing - all these are commendable, but they are not my task and yours. Our task as men is this: in our own unique personal lives, to take a short step on the road from animal to man.”
― Hermann Hesse, If the War Goes on: Reflections on War and Politics

“The friendship between my hand and this stone enacts an ancient and irrefutable eros, the kindredness of matter with itself.”
― David Abram, Becoming Animal

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Si alguna vez mi voz deja de escucharse, piensa que el bosque habla por mí, con su lenguaje de raíces”
― Jorge Teillier