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Man is perhaps the only living creature in the whole world that has a universal consciousness - a prodigious sense of this immense, mysterious cosmos which we are an essential part. So maintaining life on this planet is not only a global responsibility, it is a cosmic responsibility.

For no more than a quarter of a second she loses her grip on the strings and the balloons rise an arm's length above her head, still so near that she could almost jump up and catch them. She jumps and grabs at them, but she is a tiny bit too late, and the balloons continue to rise, dispersed by the wind, now shrinking red dots against the blue sky.

Anna,' he said. 'I've always thought you would make a good psychologist.'
She looked up at him. 'Always, Jonas? Alle three months of always?'
'Time's got nothing to do with it. I feel like I've known you forever'.

Again she looked at the ruby. Since the ring had been made, so much of nature had simply vanished - how much more would be lost one hundred years from now?

She wants to see the destruction. This is why she has gone to the forest. She wants to see the world falling apart.

The truth is four-dimensional. She sees nature as it was, fertile and varied, in dazzlingly sharp relief. But then the image changes and destruction sweeps across the screen. She sees continents, countries and regions being robbed of their species and their allure. It is incredible that these worlds are at her fingertips but, as her fingers dance across the screen, she realises it as a macabre dance.

She bursts into tears. She switches off the terminal and for a second everything around her is pitch-black. But high above in the vaulted sky, thousands of distant suns prick tiny holes into the night. She looks up at the broad belt of stars in the Milky Way. The sky is full of suns like her own. But they are so far away they don't concern her. She finds no solace in them.
Perhaps intelligent life exists only on her planet. But what if, one day, there are no humans left? Will the stars and planets live on, with no one look at them?

Take care. And try to focus on this world, on our world - all right?

We have every reason to feel at home in the universe.

She had never seen a soul in that space between the trees. But she had seen deer. She had always thought deer were more mysterious than humans. They had no job to go. They didn't go to school, and they never had homework. They didn't have to think about houses or religion or taking out insurance. They didn't have names or an ID number, and they belonged to no one. They just were. And yet: they were no less soulful for that.
How would it feel to be inside the head of the deer? Would it feel different from being in the head of a camel?

Grown-ups behave like children: they always have and always will.

She looks up. There is no moon, but in the sky there is the most magnificent cascade of stars she had ever seen. She cannot grasp how there can be so much war and hostility beneath this beautiful sky. She feels ashamed of mankind.