“Kendisinde keşfettiği mantıklı akıl yürütme yetisine, akıl yürütmesinin çabukluğuna ve doğruluğuna şaşırıyordu, kendini farklı buluyordu, bir başka insan olmuştu, şu lanet olası bacağı da olmasaydı, kendini tüm yaşamı boyunca hiç böylesine iyi duyumsamadığını söyleyebilirdi.”
“…ölüm cezası almış kişilere bile böyle davrandıklarını duydum, birinin apandisiti patlayacak olsa, önce ameliyat edip sonra idam ediyorlarmış ve bunu, sağlıklı biçimde ölmeleri için yapıyorlarmış…”
"To name Gaia is to name the necessity
of resisting this temptation, the necessity of starting out from the acceptance of this testing challenge: we do not have any choice, because she will not wait."
"To name Gaia – that is to say, to associate an assemblage of material processes that demand neither to be protected nor to be loved, and which cannot be moved by the public manifestation of our remorse, with the intrusion of a form of transcendence into our history – ought not especially to shock most scientists. They themselves are in the habit of giving names to what they rec- ognize has the power to make them think and imagine – and this is the very sense of the transcendence that I associate with Gaia."
"We are no longer dealing (only) with a wild and threatening nature, nor with a fragile nature to be protected, nor a nature to be mercilessly exploited. The case is new. Gaia, she who intrudes, asks nothing of us, not even a response to the question she imposes. Offended,2 Gaia
is indifferent to the question “who is responsible?” and doesn’t act as a righter of wrongs – it seems clear that the regions of the earth that will be affected first will be the poorest on the planet, to say nothing of all those living beings that have nothing to do with the affair."