Manoj

“There was neither “being” [sat] nor “non-being” [asat]15 then, nor intermediate space, nor heaven beyond it. What turned around? Where? In whose protection? Was there water?—Only a deep abyss.16 … Darkness was hidden by darkness, in the beginning. A featureless salty ocean was all this (universe). A germ, covered by emptiness, was born through the power of heat as the One. (Ṛgveda 10.129, India, c. 1000 BCE)17 Before”
― E.J. Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World's Mythologies

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest